India.- Broughton (Thomas Duer, translator) Selections from the Popular Poetry of the Hindoos, title with ink inscription "Presented by ?C. E. Myer, Esq." to head, few instances of ink passage-marking, few tiny marginal nicks or tears, lightly browned throughout, ex-library copy with ink-stamps to title and few other ff. and ink reference to title, upper hinge cracked, later cloth, repair to spine head, wear to spine ends and corners, Whittingham & Rowland, for John Martin, 1814 § [Vetch (George Anderson)] "A Bengal Officer". Songs of the Exile, ink ownership inscription "Miss Isabella Crawford 1820" to half-title, couple contemporary ink corrections, scattered light foxing, mainly to margins, later wrappers, sunned, Edinburgh, for David Brown, 1820, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards, 8vo (2)
⁂ The first mentioned scarce, with a Notes section at the end explaining the meaning of culturally specific references in the poetry.
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