Turnbull (John, Major)

Sketches of Delhi taken during the Siege, PRESENTATION COPY, FIRST EDITION, first free endpaper inscribed: ‘Louise Turnbull, from her affectionate father, Maj. Turnbull, Torquay, Christmas 1859’, and a later ownership inscription, tinted lithographic pictorial title, lithographic dedication to Sir Archdale Wilson with list of plates on verso, 14 plates by Turnbull, each with a leaf of descriptive text (text to plates 11 and 12 on one sheet), tissue guards, text browned, plates foxed, title and plate 2 damaged at head, all pages detached, publisher's blindstamped cloth, lettered in gilt, a.e.g., worn, spine cracked with loss at foot, folio, T. McLean, 1858.

***A scarce work: not in Abbey and Worldcat lists 5 copies in public libraries. Turnbull later published Letters written during the siege of Delhi, in 1876.