NON-EXPORTABLE
(Set of 7 Volumes)
TITLE: The History of the Indian Mutiny
AUTHOR: Charles Ball
PUBLISHER: The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited
PLACE: London
YEAR: circa 1875
NO.OF PAGES:
BINDING: Publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth (each)
SIZE: 28 x 20 x 4.5 cm (each)
An early edition of Ball's illustrated history of the Sepoy Mutiny, with two engraved title-pages, seven steel-engraved portraits, 71 steel-engraved views and battle scenes, and two double-page maps of India hand-coloured in outline.
A detailed history of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58, often described as India's First War of
Independence.
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