Fifty-two stories of the Indian Mutiny and the Men who Saved India

Alfred H Miles, Fifty-two stories of the Indian mutiny and the Men who Saved India, London: Hutchinson and Co, 1895

440 pages, frontispiece, 1 map of India, illustrated with 6 black and white plates; all edges gilt, original decorated cloth and spine
8 x 5.75 in (20 x 14.5 cm)

Alfred Henry Miles was a prolific Victorian-age author, editor, anthologist, journalist, composer and lecturer who published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry (The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, 10 vols. (London: Hutchinson, 1891), warfare (Wars of the Olden Times, Abraham to Cromwell) to household encyclopaedia's with information for every conceivable contingency (The Household Oracle : A Popular Referee on Subjects of Household Enquiry), and even advice to the lovelorn (Wooing: Stories of the Course that Never Did Run Smooth by R. E. Francillon and others. Issued as a volume in The Idle Hour Series, London: Hutchinson, [1891]). He was Guardian of the Poor for six years and a member of the London Borough of Lewisham from 1904-06.

He was editor of The Fifty-two Library, a series of children's adventure stories published by Hutchinson & Co., London in the nineteenth century. He compiled some fifty volumes that appeared at five shillings apiece. (Source: Wikipedia).

The present lot is from the same series. The book aims to supply a series of stories arranged as far as possible in historical sequence, an account of the chief incidents in the rise, progress, and ultimate suppression of the Indian Mutiny.

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