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ATKINSON, George Francklin.
The Campaign in India. 1857-58.
The Campaign in India 1857-58; a rare book from Captain George Franklin Atkinson (1822–1859), the famous author of 'Curry and Rice', and is illustrated with a number of plates. Atkinson was a Captain of the Bengal Engineers, part of the British Indian Army stationed in the Bengal Presidency. The book illustrates the British response to the Uprising of 1857 by Atkinson, a Bengal Engineers officer in the 1850s. The Campaign in India, belittled for ignoring the Indian viewpoint, is remarkable as a record of the 1857 English attitude towards India.
- Published
- London: Day & Son, 1859.
- References
- Abbey Travel II 486.
- Plates
- 26 + 2
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Day & Son, 1859.
- Ref
- 394
Tall folio expertly re-backed with 1/2 blind-tooled calf on marble boards, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands, red calf label with gilt to the second compartment, numbered on the sixth, endpapers renewed. Complete with 28 lithographs (including an extra, duplicated plate). P. (4) engraved title blank dedication blank list of plates blank plates and text (37 leaves) (4). Some expert minor reinforcement of the edges otherwise an excellent copy of this critical military plate book on India. The plates are clean and fresh. Coloured plates in order: 1. Lithographed title page. Sepoys at Practice. 2. The 1st Bengal Fusiliers marching down from Dugshai. 3. Officers joining the Force. 4. Scene in Camp. 5. Troops hastening to Umballa. 6. Mutineers surprised by Her Majesty's 9th Lancers. 7. Storming the Batteries at Badle-Serai 8. Outlying Picket [**plate duplicated**] 9. Repulse of a Sortie. [**plate duplicated**] 10. Reinforcements proceeding to Delhi. 11. Horse Artillery in action. 12 Incident in the Subzee Mundee. 13. Interior of a Tent. 14. Hodson's Horse at Rhotuck. 15. Heavy Day in the Batteries. 16. Fusiliers bringing the Captured Guns into Camp. 17. Sappers at work in the Batteries. 18. The Search for the Wounded. 19. Advance of the Siege Train. 20. Troops of the Native Allies. 21. Storming of Delhi. 22. Mutinous Sepoys. 23. Prize Agents extracting Treasure. 24. Capture & Death of the Shahzadaghs. 25. Wounded Officers at Simla. 26. Wounded Men at Dugshai.
