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[Bell, Thomas Evans].
The Rajah and Principality of Mysore: with a Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M. P. [inscribed from the author].
Publisher: Thomas Richards, London;
Date of Publication: 1865
Stock Code: 14684
First edition. Octavo, pp., 56. Original publisher’s emerald green cloth over bevelled boards, titled in gilt to spine and upper board, ornamental frame in blind to boards; top edges unopened, fore-edge uncut. Inscription in ink to front free end-paper ‘With Major Bell’s Compl.’ The slightest of shelf-wear to extremities. Contents clean, bright, and fresh. A fine copy. An attractive copy of an anonymously authored work on the British Raj. Bell was a free-thinker, secularist, and critic of the East India Company who joined the National Society for Women’s Suffrage in 1866. He wrote extensively on British rule in India, often doing so anonymously or pseudonymously. £150.00