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(c) A second edition is stated, on page iii of the preface to the Calcutta edition of 1912, to have been published at Bombay in 1863. The preface of the third edition, reprinted in the fourth edition of 1876, leads one to infer that the second edition was in three volumes, printed at Bombay, and probably published by the Times of India. This is partly corroborated by item No. 243 in a catalogue of books for sale by Francis Edwards, High Street, Marylebone (March 1915, No. 349), in which the work is described as ‘Bombay Reprint, 3 vols., 8vo., cloth, 1863, £1 5s.’¹ I have failed to obtain a copy of this edition for scrutiny. III. Bombay, 1873, 1 vol., 8vo.