INDIA. – George LAWRENCE. Reminiscences of Forty-Three Years in India… edited by W. Edwards. London: John Murray, 1874. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (193 x 120mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) Contemporary brown half calf, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities rubbed). Note: scarce. Lawrence was- mostly- an effective soldier and administrator. Charles Napier said of him, ‘He is a right good soldier’. Lawrence was present at the storming of Ghazni in 1839, and in Kabul he was appointed political assistant to William Hay Macnaghten where he took part in the retreat from the city. He was appointed assistant political agent in Punjab with control of the Rajputana District. In the second Sikh war of 1848-1849 Lawrence’s popularity kept the native soldiers loyal but they eventually mutinied. Later, he would accompany Charles Napier through the Kohat Pass. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1859 he was brigadier-general in Rajputana. He was able to quell the revolts that occurred in the states of Rajputana and the native princes confirmed their loyalty to him in a proclamation.  Provenance: Charles Thomas Lucas, Warnham Court (bookplate to the front pastedown, inscribed to from the author on initial blank).