Edwardes, H and Merivale, H - Life of Sir Henry Lawrence

Smith Elder, London,1873. 627 pages, apps, two illustrations. A detailed biography of the famous British soldier and administrator in India during the first half of the 19thC who was killed during the Indian Mutiny in 1857. Lawrence was present and participated in many of the main events in India during his life. Handling wear to green half-leather and marbled boards, brown gilt patterned spine, no dj, some foxing to eps. Bookplate of Henry Crossley Irwin on front pastedown. Uncommon. G.