Presentation copy with gilt armorial crest to cover. Full red leather with gilt dentlleborders. Gilt raised bands to spine. Black morocco title. Gilt decorative panels. Marbled endpapers and page-blocks. Very scarce copy. xxxii, 495 pages Full-page photogravure portrait with tissue-guard. 4 fold-out maps. 1 large fold-old map at rear. Colonel G. B. Malleson brings his scientific understanding of the military events that encompass 100 years of British involvement in India, prior to the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. He sets out the causes that led to each battle,and the connection to each successive war. Malleson consulted original documents and writings, including some that were unpublished, when compiling this work, it is also to be borne in mind that many of the battles we still in living memory when this important work was published. Shipped and insured [courier liability] by recorded delivery with UPS.