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Author:
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Horace Hayman Wilson
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Title:
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The History of British India from 1805 to 1835.
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Description:
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Book is Fair Brown cloth binding, Presumed first,
James Madden and George Willis, London, 1848. All three volumes of a 3-volume set. This is a continuation of Mills' history, forming effectively vols 7,8 & 9, of that earlier work, but can also be regarded as complete in itself. The spine panels are badly frayed at the edges of volumes 2 & 3, and partly missing at the top of Volume 1, so the set will need either re-backed, or re-cased. The bindings are nice and tight internally, and the yellow coated endpapers are clean and not even split in the gutters, so really a re-back will suffice - and they are perfectly robust and readable as they are, we will also be happy to contain the fraying of the present covers inside clear mylar covers on request, as this would render them servicable. The blind-embossed boards are very edgeworn though, so its up to the buyer whether to re-case or re-back. The surfaces of the boards are attractive enough with their twirly blind-embossed pattern. Either way, the set is excellent for re-binding, as the text blocks are generally clean with just the occasional foxing freckle. There is a bit of mischeif in Vol 1 and some of Vol 2, as a few dozen of the pages have a periodic edge-stain from an old waterspill, which is down at the bottom corner, and has not penetrated as far as the text, but has left the usual wiggly brown mark. This is only really bad on a couple of dozen of the pages. The rest are heavily yellowed, but very evenly so. The paper quality is neither good nor bad, and is not brittle with age. As an extra bonus, there is a newspaper clipping from the mail, dated August 31, 1888, giving a visitors impressions of India. xv+608 + xvi+611 + xvi+592 + 70pp (index to Mills history) + 24pp (index to Wilson's history)
Size 8vo keywords: india indian history mohammedans hindus rajputs sikhs
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