1806 A DEFENCE OF WELLESLEY'S WARS HINDUSTAN AND DECCAN

A
vindication of the justice and policy
 of the late wars carried on in
Hindostan and the Deckan, by
 Marquis Wellesley GOVERNOR GENERAL, & C.
 in conjunction with his higHness the Peishwah Bajee Rao,
 against the subordinate Marhatta Chieftains,
 Dowlut Rao Scindiah, Ragajee Bhoonslah, and Jesswunt Rao Holkar

LONDON
PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY
1806
First edition

Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842, was an Irish politician and colonial administrator, brother of Arthur the Duke of Wellington. He first made his name as Governor General of India between 1798 and 1805 and later served as Foreign Secretary in the British cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

This work a defence of the Marquis Wellesley's policy in India was written by Sir George Dallas 1758-1833, a writer who in his early life lived in Bengal in service with the East India Company.

This volume has loss of text to 2 leaves i.e. pages 71-72-73 and 74, the top third of these leaves are torn off and lost, the missing text has been copied from another and is loosely inserted in the volume.

The ownership of three previous possessors of this volume may compensate for the defects as its previous home was the library of Markree Castle in County Sligo Ireland '' the fixed front endpaper has a Markree Library book label'',  and underneath is an earlier armorial bookplate of Harry Verelst. Sir Harry Verelst Darrell 1768-1828 was the son of Henry Verelst the Governor of Bengal front from1767 to 1769, and on the title page is a signature twice in the same hand : Coll Harcourt 12th Foot, and, Major Gen Harcourt.
  Brigadier General George William Richard Harcourt 1775-1812 was on his death Governor of the Island of St Croix in the West Indies and was earlier in his military career Colonel of the 12th Regiment of Foot.

What better provenance?

111 Pages in total

Condition
Leather spine and corners, spine with gilt lettered title ''Wars in India'', marbled boards, marbled endpapers, slight foxing to a few pages, 2 leaves with loss as described above, otherwise all complete.

Size is 10¾ by 8½ inches