Login: First Edition (3 results)
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Seller: Libreria Oreste Gozzini snc, Firenze, FI, ItalyLibreria Oreste Gozzini snc
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Add to basketVerona, Stab. Tip. G. Civelli, 1874, in-16, mz. tela coeva, pp. XLVI, (2), 560. Legatura in cattive condizioni: piatti ondulati e carta di copertura asportata a quello ant., ma ottimo interno. Prima edizione italiana in volume (era già apparso sul giornale "La Perseveranza" nel 1872 tradotto da Sadler e Patuzzi); precede a mo' d…i prefazione il testo del discorso tenuto da A. De Gubernatis, amico di Tolstoi, al Circolo Filologico di Firenze nel marzo 1874 e poi pubblicato sulla "Rivista Europea" nel maggio. Firma d'appartenenza di Lena Civelli.
More imagesPublished by London: John Murray, 1917, 1917
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketFirst edition, second issue, with a cancel title page. Login (1820-1904) brought the deposed Maharaja Duleep Singh to England in 1854, oversaw his education, and also took charge of Queen Victoria's goddaughter, Princess Gouramma of Coorg. This is an important work of Sikh historiography and record of life in British India. Logi…n married Dr John Login in Lucknow in 1842. "Learning the court language, she was readily accepted into the zenanas of the royal family and other nawabs. From within the zenana she was able to assist in the medical diagnoses of her husband, who was barred from a physical examination of his female patients, and in subsequent treatment. Dr Login also had political duties, and his wife, aware of the power exercised by the ladies of the zenana, was able to help him in an area otherwise closed to him" (ODNB). Compiled from Lena Login's journals by her daughter, Lady Login's Recollections was published in 1916 by Smith, Elder & Co. Following its purchase of Smith, Elder in 1917, John Murray issued remaining copies with a cancel title page (which describes this second issue as a "second edition") and in a binding of light blue cloth, compared to the dark blue cloth of the first issue. Raugh 6570 (for 1916 first issue); Theakstone, p. 256. Octavo. Colour portrait frontispiece (with captioned tissue guard), 8 half-tone plates, facsimile letter from Queen Victoria mounted on stub at p. 184 as issued. Original light blue vertically combed cloth, spine gilt, title to front cover in blind, boards with blind frames. With dust jacket. Cloth bright, just a little bumping; jacket flaps without price as issued, general toning, price on spine crudely obscured with tape and ink: a near-fine copy, in about very good jacket.
More imagesPublished by London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1890, 1890
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketFirst edition, scarce in commerce, of this important contribution to Sikh historiography. "In 1890 [Lady Login] published a record of their long and close relationship and ofDuleep Singh'ssubsequent grievances against the British government, with which she sympathized" (ODNB), notable for the transcription of a large number of p…rimary documents. This copy with an excellent provenance, Earl of Iveagh's ink-stamp to the half-title. Sir John Login (1809-1863) served in India as assistant surgeon to the Bengal Army and then as Resident Surgeon at Lucknow. During this period, he met his wife, Lady Lena (1820-1904): "learning the court language, she was readily accepted into the zenanas of the royal family and other nawabs, and greatly admired the intelligence and culture of their inmates" (ODNB). Following the British annexation of the Punjab in 1849, Login was given both custodianship of the famed Koh-i-Noor diamond and wardship over the deposed Punjab monarch Duleep Singh (1838-1893). In the coming decade, the Logins supervised Singh's education in Britain and his assimilation into aristocratic life. The present work chronicles Login's India service, early encounters with Singh, and his guardianship of the Maharajah through extracts from a large number of his letters. Early chapters cover appointments in Herat, Kandahar, Kabul, and Lucknow, followed by detailed accounts of the Punjab campaign, Singh's surrender and conversion to Christianity, his baptism, passage to England in 1854, and his acculturation in the English education system and on the Grand Tour. Chapter 13 transcribes valuable material recording Duleep Singh's reaction to news of the Indian Rebellion: "The Maharajah has certainly no sympathy with the mutinous Sepoys, nor any other wish than that we should effectually put them down. He does not look on them as his countrymen, nor refrain from expressing abhorrence of their conduct whenever it is mentioned" (p. 409). Lady Lena's Recollections were published posthumously in 1916 under the supervision of her daughter, Edith Dalhousie Login (1855-1924). In 1894, "after protracted wrangling", Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927) succeeded in purchasing the Elveden Estate in Suffolk from Duleep Singh's executors. He added 6,000 acres to the existing 17,000, the maharajah himself had been a notably enthusiastic gun, turning it into the best shoot in England; and trebled the size of the Hall, "already eccentrically rebuilt to reflect the maharajah's tastes. [converting it] effectively into a grand luxe private hotel". Elveden remains the family's seat to this day. Not in Ladendorf; Raugh 6570; Riddick 138; Sorsky 657. Octavo (212 x 138 mm). Lithograph portrait frontispiece of Sir John Login, similar portrait of Duleep Singh, large folding map of the Punjab and Kashmir. The section of cloth from the front board of the original binding which bears the gilt coat of arms of Duleep Singh - a coronet surmounted by five-pointed stars with a lion and the motto "prodesse quam conspici" ("to accomplish without being conspicuous") - tipped in at the page describing how this was designed by Prince Albert. Contemporary half calf by Blunson & Co., low bands, single gilt rule, double contrast labels, gilt device in compartments, double rules in blind to spine and corner edges, Gloster pattern marbled boards, edges and endpapers, A little rubbed overall, a little more so at the extremities, contents lightly toned, folding map torn without loss and now professionally repaired pale discolouration from an old patched repair, and some paste-action browning to the facing page, but withal a very good copy.
