Title: Lot of two volumes on the Indian Mutiny of 1857 Author: ** Place: London & Lucknow Publisher: Date: 1892 & 1892 Description: Includes: Inglis, Lady. The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary. viii, 240 pp. First edition. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892. * Shepherd, J.W. A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore, During the Sepoy Revolt of 1857. v, [1], 213, xxxv pp. With 5 lithographed plates; 4 plans, 2 of them folding. Fourth edition, revised & enlarged. Lucknow: Methodist Publishing House, 1894. Together, 2 volumes. Original cloth. Two scarce first-hand accounts of the Great Indian Mutiny, also called the Sepoy Rebellion, the defining moment in the British occupation of Indian. Lot Amendments Condition: Both with minor extremity wear; 1st with old label of Cawthorn, Hutt & Son, Booksellers and Librarians, on front cover, bookplate of Charles S. Landers on front pastedown, old paper spine label, ink shelf mark on title-page, leaning; 2nd with top corner of front free endpaper torn off, pencil inscription to pastedown dated 1903; both about very good. Item number: 189005
Title: Lot of two volumes on the Indian Mutiny of 1857 Author: ** Place: London & Lucknow Publisher: Date: 1892 & 1892 Description: Includes: Inglis, Lady. The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary. viii, 240 pp. First edition. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892. * Shepherd, J.W. A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore, During the Sepoy Revolt of 1857. v, [1], 213, xxxv pp. With 5 lithographed plates; 4 plans, 2 of them folding. Fourth edition, revised & enlarged. Lucknow: Methodist Publishing House, 1894. Together, 2 volumes. Original cloth. Two scarce first-hand accounts of the Great Indian Mutiny, also called the Sepoy Rebellion, the defining moment in the British occupation of Indian. Lot Amendments Condition: Both with minor extremity wear; 1st with old label of Cawthorn, Hutt & Son, Booksellers and Librarians, on front cover, bookplate of Charles S. Landers on front pastedown, old paper spine label, ink shelf mark on title-page, leaning; 2nd with top corner of front free endpaper torn off, pencil inscription to pastedown dated 1903; both about very good. Item number: 189005
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