Statement of the services of the late Colonel John Colvin, C.B., Bengal Engineers, as entered on the records of the Honourable East India Company..
Baker, William Erskine,inscriber.StEdNL
Baker, Elizabeth Catherine,active 1871,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.,
1871..
Colvin was a Scot. There is an albumin portrait of him as a frontispiece.
Manuscript inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper "Elizabeth Catherine Baker / from W. E. B. [i.e. Sir William Erskine Baker (1808-1881) / Morden Park / 30- September / 1871". Baker was Colvin's brother-in-law. This copy also contains manuscript copies of letters relating to Colvin and perhaps this copy belonged to the compiler of this book.
Colvin, John, 1794-1871
Irrigation
Irrigation engineers
England London.