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Description

Heading:
Author: Eden, Emily
Title: Up the Country: Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India
Place Published: London
Publisher:Richard Bentley
Date Published: 1866
Description:

2 volumes. vi, 302; [2]. 263 pp. (8vo) 18.5x12.5 cm (7½x5"), ornately bound in three quarter green calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, red and tan morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers Second Edition.

Emily Eden was a poet and novelist. These letters were written while on an extended tour of Northern India with her sister Fanny between 1837 and 1840, while her brother George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland was in residence as Governor-General of that country. The letters give a fascinating glimpse of nineteenth century colonial India from the perspective of the ruling class. A handsome, finely bound set.

Condition

Light wear to bindings with rubbing to extremities, top corner of front board to vol. 1 lightly bumped; toning to interiors with a bit of light foxing; about near fine.

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