Life of Lord (John) Lawrence.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First American edition. 2 portrait frontispieces, a color map of Delhi, 1857 & a large folding colored map of the Punjab and adjoining countries. xiv, 484, [4, ads] ; xix, 567, [4, ads] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gtey green cloth. Fine. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge.
Item #60888
Originally published in England just four years after his death (1811-1879), a biography of Lord John Lawrence.
Lawrence's first years in the Indian civil service were in Delhi. Then he moved to Punjab as Lieutenant-Govenor where he founded British rule.
