A Calcutta lawyer and Justice’s recollections of legal life in the capital, published 1876 in Calcutta

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Mookerjee, Mohindronauth: The Memoir of the late Honourable Justice Onoocool Chunder Mookerjee. Thacker, Spink and Co. [Calcutta] 1876 2nd edition 8vo.

87pp. Contemporary or slightly later red half morocco with marbled paper covered boards and title in gilt along the spine, all edges gilt, endpapers matching the binding, originally published as a pamphlet and retaining the original printed buff card covers, previous owner’s armorial bookplate to front pastedown, presentation letter dated 1891 (from Edward Monson to Pollock, dated 4 New square Oct. 20 91) tipped in before title page, a generally clean copy in a handsome little binding, the original cover a little soiled and the head of spine with minor loss. A memoir of the Honourable Justice Onoocool Chunder Mookerjee, lawyer and judge of Fort William (Calcutta) in Bengal. nov23/1

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