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TAYLOR, Captain Meadows (1808-76). Confessions of a Thug, London: Richard Bentley, 1839. 3 volumes, 12° (187 x 115mm). (Without the publisher's catalogue, occasional light spotting and staining.) Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with black and green morocco lettering-pieces (lightly rubbed, some light staining). FIRST EDITION. Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, Bart. (armorial bookplate). The most influential novel about India before Kipling's Kim (1901) and one of the best-selling crime novels of the 19th-century. Block p.234; Sadleir 3178; Wolff 6674.
With Captain Meadows Taylor's Tippoo Sultaun; a Tale of the Mysore War (London, 1840, 3 vols., FIRST EDITION) bound in near-uniform half calf. (6)
With Captain Meadows Taylor's Tippoo Sultaun; a Tale of the Mysore War (London, 1840, 3 vols., FIRST EDITION) bound in near-uniform half calf. (6)
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