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First edition of Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors by Edwars Cotsford, in an attempt to bid for the role of the Governor of Madras.
First edition of Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors by Edwars Cotsford, in an attempt to bid for the role of the Governor of Madras.
First edition of Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors by Edwars Cotsford, in an attempt to bid for the role of the Governor of Madras.
First edition of Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors by Edwars Cotsford, in an attempt to bid for the role of the Governor of Madras.

[EAST-INDIA COMPANY]; COTSFORD, Edward.

Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the English East-India Company, on the appointment of a successor to Lord Macartney. With an Appendix.

[London], 1784.

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Written by Edward Cotsford (1740-1810) bidding for the role of Governor of Madras following the impending replacement of Lord Macartney after he declined the governor-generalship of India. Macartney had successfully negotiated the Treaty of Mangalore with Tipu Sultan which saw the end of the Second Anglo-Mysore War in 1784.

Edward Cotsford had served in Madras since the age of 17, becoming Chief at Masulipatam, and was a frequent critic of the limitations of the governance of Madras. He returned to England with a considerable fortune and after failing to be considered for the Governorship turned to politics and was a staunch opponent of the Pitt administration.

First edition; 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm); modern quarter red morocco, gilt rolled red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, all edges speckled red, a fine copy; [ii], 54 pp.

Pickett 1446.

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First edition of Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors by Edwars Cotsford, in an attempt to bid for the role of the Governor of Madras.

Letters to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the English East-India Company,

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