FIRST IMPRESSIONS AND STUDIES FROM NATURE IN HINDOSTAN;

London: W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, 1837. embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years' residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI. In two volumes. Pp.[iii]-xx+406+[iii]-xvi+436, 28 plates (including frontispiece to each volume, the first with tissue guard); nineteenth century half purple calf, spines with gilt lettered black leather title & volume labels, marbled papered boards, rubbed and lightly worn, corners grazed, joints tender, the spines rubbed and faded to brown, slight bump to fore-edge of upper board Volume I; hinges starting, pencilled inscription partly rubbed from verso of upper free endpaper Volume II, both volumes lacking half-title page, 2 small pencilled sketches (of sailing ships, dated 1869) on verso of final blank Volume I, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1837. First edition. *The plates are from illustrations made in India by the author. Thomas Bacon (1813-1892) was a Lieutenant with the Bengal Horse Artillery from 1835 to 1838. He served as a chaplain in Malta from 1846-8, and was made Canon of Gibraltar in 1847. From 1852 to 1872 he was Rector of Kingsworthy, near Winchester.