1910 Memories of Rugby and India

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding

A very smart, and uncommon blue cloth presentation copy of Sir Alexander Arbuthnot's autobiography.

The last of his publications, edited by his wife, and published after his death.

This copy features a silver gilt crest to the front board, bearing the author's family motto, 'Laus Deo', and is decorated with a gilt top edge.

Arbuthnot attended Rugby Boarding School, in Warwickshire, and spent many years of his life in India, working as a Civil Servant, during which he was an influential figure in the establishment of Madras University, and was a founder of the Madras Cricket Club.

Features a photograph frontispiece, and 15 further monochrome plates.

Includes 104 pages of adverts for other works, some leaves unopened.