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a)
MAJOR A C LOVETT AND MAJOR G F MACMUNN DSO eds., The Armies of India, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911

Vellum-effect cream cloth with blind patterning and gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt
242 including 72 tipped colour plates painted by Major A C Lovett
27.5 x 22 x 5 cm

Deluxe edition limited to 500 copies, numbered 12/500. Signed by A C Lovett.

With 72 full-page illustrations in colour recording the physical types and uniforms of the soldiers, including the Governor - General's bodyguard; Governor's bodyguard at Bombay; British officers of the Indian cavalry; etc.

b)
JOHN CHARLTON, Royal Naval and Military Bazaar, Souvenir Being a Collection of Sketches and Drawings, London: Dangerfield Printing Company, 1900

1 monochromatic frontispiece; 31 full-page colour plates of Charlton's uniformed men, with literary contributions by Harold Begbie, Walter Besant, Guy Boothby, F C Burnand, and John Strange Winter including 12 plates of Sikh Soldiers
Hardcover in original cream-coloured boards imprinted with the image of three soldiers and a horse with a new spine
37.5 x 27 x 1.5 cm

c)
RICHARD SIMKIN, Our Armies: Illustrated and described by Richard Simkin, London: Sampson Low Marston and Co., 1891

Approximately 100 pages including blanks with 101 facsimile watercolour drawings, 30 full-colour plates and numerous illustrations in the text. 17 coloured plates deal with various Indian regiments
Colour pictorial boards with cloth spine
22 x 28 x 1.5 cm

d)
Military Uniforms of the British Empire Overseas, Nottingham: John Players & Son

24 pages including 50 tipped-in cigarette cards
Paperback
26 x 20.5 x 0.5 cm

A collection of 50 tipped-in cigarette cards of various regiments of the British Empire overseas, with many having original Indian card covers.