The Indian Mutiny of 1857. MALLESON (Colonel G. B.)

Frontispiece and three further portraits and three plans.
First Edition. 8vo. [238 x 152 x 33 mm]. xiv, [ii], 421, [3] pp. Bound in contemporary tree calf, the covers with a gilt triple fillet border. The spine divided into six panels by raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third on green and red goatskin labels, the others tooled with flowers and sprigs, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt dotted fillet, the turn-ins with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves and edges. (A few short scratches on the front cover, joints a little rubbed).
London: Seeley and Co. Limited 1891.

Copy no.15 of 250 on large paper. Limitation leaf and recto of frontipiece foxed, else a good clean copy. Inscribed in ink on the front flyleaf: "C. G. Goschen from A. C. Benson, Eton, March 1898 (History Prize - Germany)". A. C. Benson (1862-1925) taught at Eton from 1885 to 1903, before returning to Magdalene College, Cambridge as Fellow, President and Master. He is remembered now as the author of ghost stories, essays, poetry and and the lyrics for Elgar's Coronation Ode, including the partriotic "Land of Hope and Glory".

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