The Polish Captivity an account of the present position of the Poles in the Kingdom of Poland, and in the provinces of Austria, Prussia and Russia in two volumes Volume 1 and Volume 2 First Edition 1863 by Sutherland Edwards - 1863

London: Wm H. Allen & Co, 1863. 1st Edition. hardbound. both volumes Very Good in rubbed boards (both volumes rebacked)/no dustwrapper. 2 volumes 8vo. colour plates 1st Edition 1863 of Henry Sutherland Edwards study of the historical/political/social situation of Poland and the Polish people in the mid-19th Century; illustrated with 16 full-page coloured lithographs, and 2 frontispiece plates (some with original tissue-guards, not bound in); published in the same year as the Polish Uprising of January 1863, in which the author was with the insurgents at Warsaw (Sutherland Edwards was a journalist and correspondent for The Times); both volumes newly rebacked in red cloth with gilt titling to spines, and with new hollow backs; original blind-stamped red boards, original endpapers, pages untrimmed; both volumes with foxing to endpapers, prelims, and text blocks (medium foxing), occasional scattered foxing in text, tissue-guards tanned, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards fairly heavily rubbed, and with some stains.