TOM RAW, THE GRIFFIN: A BURLEQUE POEM IN TWELVE CANTOS, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF A CADET IN THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE, FROM THE PERIOD OF HIS QUITTING ENGLAND TO HIS OBTAINING A STAFF POSITION IN INDIA. BY A CIVILIAN AND AN OFFICER ON THE BENGAL ESTABLISHMENT.

(D'Oyly, Charles).

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Place Published: London:
Publisher: R. Ackerman,
Date Published: 1828
Condition: Hardcover. Good+.
Book Id: 279116

Description

Publisher's brown boards, 325 pages, ads, hand-colored plates. Boards browned & lightly soiled, spine ends & corners bumped & lightly worn, hinges cracked but holding well, former owner's name on front pastedown & title page, ink underlines on title page which is heavily offset, first quire starting to detach, p. v of prologue detached but present, offsetting to opposite pages from plates, some other light occasional foxing. Includes an apparently period home-made silk moire dust cover which is soiled & edgeworn w/ the front panel detached but present. Includes an apparently period home-made silk moire dust cover which is soiled & edgeworn w/ the front panel detached but present.