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Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, an eye witness view by Clifford Mecham, depicting the heavy toll suffered by the British, with tinted lithographs
Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, an eye witness view by Clifford Mecham, depicting the heavy toll suffered by the British, with tinted lithographs
Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, an eye witness view by Clifford Mecham, depicting the heavy toll suffered by the British, with tinted lithographs
Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, an eye witness view by Clifford Mecham, depicting the heavy toll suffered by the British, with tinted lithographs

MECHAM, Clifford Henry.

Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow From Drawings Made During the Siege.

London, Day & Son, 1858.

£2,500.00
£2,500.00

Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow

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A first edition illustrating the famous Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, based on drawings made during the siege by British Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham and depicting the heavy toll suffered by the British.

The accompanying descriptive text for the plates was provided by George Couper Esq., late Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oud.

First edition; folio (57 x 38 cm); tinted lithograph title with vignette, 26 full-colour lithograph plates across 17 sheets, some marginal spotting and offsetting throughout, small tear to front free endpaper repaired; publisher's original black blind-stamped cloth, lettering in gilt to upper board and spine, light bumping to extremities, spine professionally restored, a very good copy.

Stock code 122863

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Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow, an eye witness view by Clifford Mecham, depicting the heavy toll suffered by the British, with tinted lithographs

Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow

£2,500.00
£2,500.00

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