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(iii)-xxvi, [1], 468 pp. Lacking half title. Portrait frontispiece; large engraved folding map; 9 plates. (4to) 10½x8½, later red half morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. First Edition.

Prinsep was employed at the age of 16 as writer with the East India Company in Calcutta, he later joined the staff of the Marquis of Hastings and accompanied him on his tour through Oudh and the North-Western Provinces. He served on Hastings’ staff during the Gurkha and Pindari campaigns and through the end of the Mahratta war, when he obtained the Governor-General's permission to write his Narrative.