[TROTTER, CAPTAIN LIONEL J.]. The Life of John Nicholson, Soldier and Administrator, Based on Private and Hitherto Unpublished Documents. London: John Murray, 1898.
SIXTH EDITION, leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (22cm x 14cm x 4cm), pp. xii, 333. English text with illustrations and maps. Handsomely rebound in half calf gilt by Bayntun-Riviere, cloth sides, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, half-title, 2 portraits, 1 illustration in the text, 3 folding colour maps, rear appendix and index. Printed by Horace Hart & Co. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Mottling to cloth sides, slight scratch to leather, the covers otherwise excellent. The interior very well-preserved. Armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Additional portrait neatly tipped-in before title-page. A beautiful copy.
Notes: Based on private and unpublished documents. John Nicholson (1822-1857) was famous for his role in the Indian Mutiny.
