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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Smith, Elder & Co, 1873. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback ,third edition, octavo, russet cloth lettered gilt to the spine, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, two tissue guarded portraits, xvi + 627pp.

New York: Macmillan And Co., 1873., 1873. 8vo. pp. xvi, 627. with half-title. 2 portraits (incl. frontis.). untrimmed & partly unopened in original cloth (corners bumped). Third Edition.. Hardcover.

London.: Smith, Elder & Co.. Third Edition. 1873.. Portrait frontispiece with foxed tissue-guard, and one other portrait, xvi + 627pp, appendices, prior owner named bookplate on the front pastedown, rear inner hinge cracked but holding firm, brown cloth covered boards lettered and ruled in black and gilt on the spine, very minor wear at head and tail and corners. A clean and sturdy copy. Sir Henry Lawrence, a man of exceptional talent and ability, (1806-1857) wrote a number of essays and books on Indian subjects but is probably best remembered for his administrative ability, his energy, his sympathies with the Indian aristocracy, his high character and his tragic death in the siege of Lucknow. .

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1872. [3], vi-xii, 492; [3], vi-xii, 396pp. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplates of Alexander Balfour to FEPs, scattered spotting. A handsome copy of the monumental biography of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806-1857), army officer in the East India Company, veteran of the First Anglo-Afghan War and the First Anglo-Sikh War, killed at the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion. Alexander Balfour (1824-1886), merchant, founder of Liverpool shipping company Balfour Williamson. . Second edition. 8vo.

London : Smith, Elder, 1872. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good to very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 v. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Lawrence, Henry Sir. East India Company. Army Officers ; Biography. Colonial administrators - Great Britain ; Biography.