Valentine Chirol — Indian Unrest

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1910. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this controversial publication by the British journalist, author, historian and diplomat Ignatius Valentine Chirol. Deprecatory comments in this work resulted in a civil suit being brought against Chirol by the Indian nationalist, lawyer and an independence activist Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Although Tilak ultimately lost the suit, Chirol ended up spending almost two years in India on account of it, missing the bulk of World War I. A first edition copy of this work in book form. This copy features a tipped in bookplate of Michael George Glazebrook, the Headmaster of Clifton College who is reputed to have once held the world record for the high jump. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, minor shelfwear to extremities and slight marking to boards. Bumping to head of spine, and mark to spine. Small label tipped to tail of spine. Prior owner's bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Several small pen and ink inscriptions to front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .