8vo. xlvii, (i), 301, (1) pp. Contemporary green full morocco for the Byculla Club, Bombay [Mumbai] with their gilt crest to the upper board dated 1869 and two stamps to the title page, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and decorated to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece portrait of Keats. Some light wear to the extremities, contents fairly evenly tanned throughout, an attractive copy. The Byculla Club was named after a district of Mumbai that became a popular area for Europeans to settle during the early decades of the 19th century. It was founded in 1833 in what was then a fashionable area of the city as a well appointed residential club for colonials, offering dining and leisure facilities including a cricket ground and racecourse. As the neighbourhood became more crowded in the later years of the 19th century the area was deemed less desirable and the club's fortunes declined. It was eventually turned into a hospital during the First World War and the building eventually sold in the 1920s. It was sold on again some 20 years later and was demolished some time after that with no trace left of its substantial building and grounds. Seller Inventory # 47660

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Title: The Poetical Works of. with a Memoir by ...

Publisher: London: Edward Moxon

Publication Date: 1854

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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association

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