31st Jul, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Aviation & Transport
 
  Lot 86
 

Mecham (Clifford Henry, Lieutenant)

Mecham (Clifford Henry, Lieutenant)

Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Luckknow, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece plate with view of the Baillie Guard Gateway letterpress dedication and descriptive text leaves 23/27 views on 16 tinted lithographed plates, tissue guards, including title page (lacking one leaf, pl. 7-8), all leaves loose, foxing throughout, affecting plates, some tearing, original brown publisher’s cloth, worn, Day & Son, 1858.

*** Mecham joined the 52nd Madras Native Infantry on the 9th of March 1849 at Vellore. The Siege of Lucknow was a prolonged defence of the Residency within the city of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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