Widely renowned as the 'lion of Bombay' and as the 'uncrowned king of Bombay', Sir Pherozeshah Mehta was the first Parsi barrister to be called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in London in 1868. He was one of the founders of the Bombay Presidency Association in 1885 along with Badruddin Tyabji and Justice K. T. Telang. He was the Municipal Commissioner of the Bombay Municipality in 1873 and served as its president for four terms. Mehta was one of the founding fathers of the Indian National Congress. In 1910, he was instrumental in starting The Bombay Chronicle newspaper.
We are now pleased to offer an extremely rare and hard-to-find First Edition of his biography. First published in Bombay in 1921, this comprehensive political biography was authored by H. P. Mody in two volumes. The foreword in the first volume was contributed by Aga Khan. The first volume of this rare set also contains a handwritten gift inscription by the author.
Images of the covers, the original deckled-edged pages, the table of contents of both the volumes, and numerous other images of these precious rarities are attached herewith for the perusal of those interested.
SIR PHEROZESHAH MEHTA: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY — Volumes 1 & 2
Author: H. P. Mody
Foreword by: Aga Khan
Printed & Published by: E. G. Pearson, The Times Press, Bombay, 1921 — Extremel
Pages in Volume 1: iv (unnumbered) + xii pages + 386 pages + 1 frontispiece + 1 b&w plate of the First Indian National Congress.
Pages in Volume 2: iv (unnumbered) + 314 pages + 1 frontispiece. The pages of the second volume are numbered in continuation of the first volume i.e. from page no. 387.
Format: Hardcover with the original deckle-edged pages on all three sides. Professionally rebound in full genuine brown leather with the titles debossed in golden lettering.
Size: 23.3 cm x 15.3 cm
Inscription: A handwritten gift inscription by the author on the flyleaf of the first volume; image attached.
Condition: Pre-owned. Good. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight and firm. These antiquarian First Editions are well over a century old and some of the pages bear certain signs (natural yellowing/foxing, minor spotting) consistent with the natural ageing process. Some pages in both the volumes (primarily marginal tears) have been carefully fortified/restored as necessary.
Remarks: This antiquarian First Edition is extremely rare and hard to find, let alone with both the volumes intact. The value of this particular two-volume set lies in its utmost rarity for being the very First Edition published in Bombay in the year 1921.
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