Naval and Military
P & O Pencillings. ([1891])
Landscape 4to. Mounted chromolithographic frontispiece, decorative title page and twenty-two other similar plates, twenty-four pages of line-drawn illustrations. Some browning and marginal finger-soiling, somewhat shaken overall, as often, but a very good copy in the original green pebble-grained cloth, gilt, P & O flag in colours, slightly rubbed. Published for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company... by Day & Son..., n.d.
Lloyd had served with the South Wales Borderers in South Africa, Zulu War, 1879, and had had some of his sketches published in the ILN. After leaving the Army he had some success with illustrated books based on his service experiences in India and Africa, On Active Service and Sketches of Indian Life, followed by this item promoting the P & O line and another of 1896 Union Jottings a similar exercise on behalf of the Union Line.This is a charming account of a trip undetaken from Tilbury to India via the Suez Canal. Wonderfully well-observed scenes of life on board - "In the Bay - Dressing for Dinner", "Gibraltar", "Malta", "Port Said", "In the Canal", "In the Red Sea", "Evening in the India Ocean" &c. Humorously rendered, but without doubt a life-like picture of what must have been familiar scenes to generations of "Servants of the Empire."
Stock Code: MI22828
