Viscountess Amelia Cary Falkland

A first-edition copy of Viscountess Falkland's account of her time in India, Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land.

• Sold as a set of 2.
• Viscountess Amelia Cary Falkland (English).
• London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857.
• 326 and 287 pages.
• Octavo.
• Includes two lithographed frontispieces and title-page vignettes.
• Bound in original blind-stamped red cloth gilt.

The youngest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the actress Mrs. Jordan, the author married the colonial administrator Viscount Falkland. After being posted to Canada as governor of Nova Scotia, Lord Falkland, accompanied by his wife, the author, was sent out to India in 1848 where he took up the post of governor of Bombay.

The book is divided into two parts. The larger part deals with the author's life in India; the remainder with her journey home during which she visited Egypt, the Holy Land and Syria. A colorful picture of life in India during the days of the East India Company, the author having traveled extensively within her husband's fiefdom. The same good humor ensured that Amelia Cary's account of the journey home is entertaining as well as informative. (Theakstone)