The tremendous pictorial richness of rare prints, engravings, lithographs, and maps which had a wide market in 18th- and 19th-century British India are featured here. This book covers a wide range of interesting subjects: the peoples of India, costumes, customs, eating habits of the British in India, architecture, landscape, flora
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The tremendous pictorial richness of rare prints, engravings, lithographs, and maps which had a wide market in 18th- and 19th-century British India are featured here. This book covers a wide range of interesting subjects: the peoples of India, costumes, customs, eating habits of the British in India, architecture, landscape, flora
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VG-/VG-. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. Some wear and bumped corners on covers. Owner's sticker on ffep, otherwise clean and tight. Black cloth with bronze lettering. BW-illustrated dust jacket, black spine with gold lettering. xii + 240 pp. Profuse BW and color illustrations. "Prints relating to any country are an historical revelation. Those portraying aspects of India, such as the magnificence of its architecture, the range of lndscape, the exotic flora and fauna and the varied costumes and customs of its people, have a special fascination for people today...The articles in this volume have been chosen in order to convey something of the tremendous pictorial richness to be found in the prints relating to India."--dj flap.
