Lot 86
Urdu lithographic printing
Tughray nastaliq [Monograms in nasta'liq script]
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Cawnpore [Kanpur]: Law Press, 1889. 4to, original pictorial wrappers printed in silver and sepia, front wrapper decorated with arabesques and roundel portraits, rear wrapper with large illustration of a palace, [28] leaves, lithographed throughout in various colours (green, black, red, blue and purple), illustrated throughout with portraits apparently including Hindu gods and goddesses, Mughal sultans, and contemporary figures including Queen Victoria, decorative floral or calligraphic surrounds, frequent captions at foot in Devanagari script, 2 leaves of English text at rear, browning, paper worn away on spine, shallow area of paper erosion to head of spine just touching decorative border on front wrapper, a few marks to English text
Footnote
Note: No other copy traced. The work includes a two-page autobiography in English by the author, one Heera Lal of Jaipur, who was born in 1853 and describes himself as a tutor to 'several of the Rajput nobles of the Jeypore State amongst whom Thakur Mahtab Singh of the Rajawat clan, the Chief of Siwar, is one of my best and intelligent students'.