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WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL (1820 - 1907)

MY DIARY IN INDIA, IN THE YEAR 1858-9


Estimate: Rs 50,000-Rs 60,000 ( $695-$835 )


My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9


William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: xiii; 408 pages including 1 black and white map and 5 tinted lithographs
Volume II: xi; 420 pages including 6 tinted lithographs
Original stamped publisher's cloth (each)
8 x 5.2 in (20 x 13 cm) (each)

An excellent eyewitness account sympathetic to Indians.

William Howard Russell was the special Correspondent of “The Times”. This book has tinted lithographic plates by Swedish artist Egron Lundgren and a folding ‘Plan of the Operations Against Lucknow 1858’.

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