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The Tale of the Great Mutiny With Portraits and Maps. Sixth Impression, Second Edition, Enlarged.
by FITCHETT W. H.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1907 2nd. Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. Full tree calf leather fine binding, with decorative gilt edging to boards, raised spine banding, gilt decorations and black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Lovely smart cover. Eton prize label to front endpaper “Eustacio E.L. Phillips. 1910.” Some minor foxing spots to top edges of endpapers. Some occasional faint patches of foxing, mostly to rear sides of plates and opposite pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 485pp. Illustrated with 8 b&w portrait plates, and 6 maps including one fold-out map at back. A very well told history of the Indian Mutiny, a detailed account of the campaigns to supress it. The siege of Cawnpor, and the storming of Lucknow.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93335
- Title
- The Tale of the Great Mutiny With Portraits and Maps. Sixth Impression, Second Edition, Enlarged.
- Author
- FITCHETT W. H.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1907 2nd
- Keywords
- Military Subjects W. H. FITCHETT, The Tale of the Great Mutiny, portraits and maps, Indian Mutiny, Cawnpor, Lucknow, fine binding, 1909, 2nd, Smith, Elder, & Co., Tree Calf Fine Binding Leather Binding
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Fine Binding
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- Spine Label
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Calf
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- Edges
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