Author: MACMUNN Lieut.-General Sir George
Title: The Indian Mutiny in Perspective. A THOROUGHLY 'LOCAL' COPY IN BUCKRAM
Description: G[eorge] Bell,, 1931. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (small marginal annotation), 23 plates on 15, 4 full-page maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps, some mild marginal age-staining; strongly bound in navy buckram, blue top ( mildly faded), gilt back, gilt image from original cloth mounted on new leaf at front, a very good, bright, clean copy. This copy was presented by Sir Reginald Spence and carries an appropriate presentation bookplate on front paste-down. Spence evidently acquired his copy in India; it bears the coloured trade ticket of Taraporevala's bookshop in Bombay, the stamp of the Byculla Club (of the same city) on half-title and title, AND THE CLUB LIBRARY'S ORIGINAL ACCESSION SLIP MOUNTED BEFORE HALF-TITLE. A FASCINATING AND COLOURFUL COPY HUGELY REDOLENT OF THE LAST DAYS OF RAJ, LOCALLY ACQUIRED BY AN EMINENT SERVANT OF THE CROWN IN INDIA AND SUBSEQUENTLY PRESENTED BY HIM TO HIS ALMA MATA. A SCARCE TITLE. Sorsky 685.

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