Lot 104
£479
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Allahabad: printed at the "Indian Press", 1894. First edition, 4to, original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, [2] 10 6 23 [1] 191 [1] 40 6 2 5 9 pp., text in Hindi within decorative pictorial border, title-page in Hindi and English with decorative floral border, 41 halftone plates from photographic portraits or Indian miniature paintings including portrait frontispiece, presentation plate from the author to Norwich Public Library to front pastedown, shelfmark in white ink to spine, spine faded, corners of boards bumped, withdrawal stamp to front free endpaper, title-page wit closed tear to head extending into border, and small section at lower inner corner detached but present
Note: Rare in commerce. Library records call for 38 or 40 plates; the latter count may exclude the frontispiece.