Aliph Cheem [Walter Yeldham] — Lays of India

Bombay, Thacker, Vining & Co, 1871 . Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the second edition of Walter Yeldham's 'comical, satirical and descriptive poems illustrative of English life in India', published under the pseudonym Aliph Cheem. The second edition of this work.Inscribed to the title page 'Henry Banister from the Author&apos.An inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper reads 'Note: this book was passed down to me from my Grandfather H. Banister. The author, Aliph Cheem, was Col. Yeldham, 18th Hassars, who was 1st cousin of my mother, Miss Emma Banister&apos.Henry Banister was an English composer, music theorist and author.This amusing collection of short poems begins with the rhyming dedication 'to Anglo-indian folk, who can relish a little joke, this book is dedicated&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small loss of cloth to back strip head. Rubbing to board perimeters. Inscriptions to verso of front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Inscription to title page head. Pages bright, with the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .