Many Memories of Life in India, at Home, and Abroad

Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & decoration, grey clay-coated endpapers, portrait frontispiece & plate, inserted 16 pp. "Opinions of the Press", followed by 448 pp. of the text and 32 pp. publisher's catalog. Second printing stated on title page, the Opinions of the Press says "Now going into a Third Edition."Wear to edges of boards, discoloration to front cover. Armorial bookplate of J.H. Rivett-Carnac to front endpaper. Inscribed on half title: "To my good friend R.M. Barreton, in memory of many pleasant days in the long ago, J.H. Rivett-Carnac, Chateau de Rougemont, 31/iii/1911." Rivett-Carnac was the grandson of James Rivett-Carnac, a director of the East India Company and Governor of the Bombay Presidency. John Henry was thus a well-to-do young man with family connections. He worked in the Bengal Civil Service from 1858-1894. The bulk of the narrative concerns his time in India. He also engaged in some amateur archaeology (he was first to excavate the stone circles of Junapani), and I wonder if that's what he was doing at Chateau de Rougement, which was a ruined castle. Barreton was almost certainly Richard Manliffe Barrington (1849-1915), the Irish naturalist.…