[Privately printed volume by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, inscribed by him to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand'.] 'Private Copy' of 'Verses Written in India' by 'A. C. L.'

[4] + 71pp., 8vo. In binding with green cloth spine and green paper boards, with 'Verses Written in India' printed on the front. In god condition, lightly aged and in aged and worn binding. 24 poems, with titles including 'The Old Pindaree', 'The Amir's Soliloquy', 'A Rajput Chief of the Old School' and 'Meditations of a Hindu Prince'. 'Verses Written in India' went through six editions, the second to the sixth published between 1890 (K. Paul) and 1907 (Routledge), but the only copy of this privately printed first edition (the only one not to bear Lyall's full name) on COPAC at Cambridge and the British Library.