[COTTON, H. E. A.]. Calcutta Old and New: A Historical & Descriptive Handbook to the City. London: W. Newman & Co., 1907.
FIRST EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; thick octavo (19.5 x 13 x 5 cm); pp. xiv, 1011, xxx. English text. Bound in publisher's original covers; appendix and index to rear. Condition: VERY GOOD. Contents complete. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers and contents very well-preserved. Bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce.
Notes: FIRST EDITION. The author, Harry Evan Auguste Cotton, was of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law & Advocate of the High Court at Fort William in Bengal; sometime scholar of Jesus College, Oxford. This work covers the earliest history of Calcutta, its founding, days of settlement, Calcutta of Queen Anne, troubles of 1756, Calcutta after Plassey, Hastings & Francis, from Cornwallis to Wellesley, Calcutta a hundred years ago, making of modern Calcutta, the last forty years, citizens of no mean city, twentieth-century Calcutta, historic houses and famous localities, statues and monuments, the Old Fort and Black Hole, St. John's Church and churchyard, Park street cemeteries, St. Paul's Cathedral, the old mission church, government house, high court, town hall, Imperial library & Metcalfe Hall, Victoria Memorial Hall collection, Fort William of today, Belvedere and Alipore, some Calcutta institutions, temples, shrines up & down the river, etc. Forming one of the most comprehensive single resource on the ancient city and British colony.
