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Hand-coloured map of 'The Residency, Palaces, &c. of Lucknow' during the Indian Mutiny, with 'Sketch of the Environs of Lucknow (to the South.) Showing the Route of Sir Colin Campbell's advance', engraved by Edward Weller for the Weekly Dispatch.

Author: 
Edward Weller (d.1884), cartographer; The Weekly Dispatch, London newspaper; Day & Sons, Lithographers to the Queen; Siege of Lucknow, Indian Mutiny, 1857]
Publication details: 
Weekly Dispatch, 139 Fleet Street, London. Printed by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen. [1857.]
£25.00

In portrait on piece of 50 x 35 cm. paper, folded twice. Coloured in blue, brown, green and pink. Image 42.5 x 30.5 cm. Printed beneath image: 'Weekly Dispatch 139, Fleet Str. Day & Son, Lithors. to the Queen. Engraved by Edwd. Weller.' In good condition, lightly-aged with slight creasing to edges and a little wear along fold lines. The plan of the environs of Lucknow is 13.5 x 12.5 cm., in the top right-hand corner.

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Eighteen items relating to British Salonica Army concert parties in the First World War, including three programmes, ten photographs and four ALsS from Captain G. M. Butt of the Army Service Corps to his father G. W. Butt of Littlehampton

Author: 
Captain George Malleson Butt (1880-1936) of the Army Service Corps [his father George Weller Butt (d.1931) of Wilbury, Littlehampton, British Salonica Army; Balkans; Sir Reginald Kennedy-Cox]
Publication details: 
Salonica. 1917 and 1918.
£750.00

This collection provides an evocative and unusual snapshot of First World War social history, comprising eighteen items relating to British Army concert party performances in Salonica towards the end of the First World War, including three scarce programmes (only one copy of Item 13 below on COPAC, and Items 1 and 14 unknown), ten photographs of members of the concert party in character (several in drag), and four letters from Captain Butt (Items 15 to 18), three of them containing well-written, appreciative and informative comments on productions.

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