Buy this book on-line George Francklin Atkinson : Curry & Rice, on Forty Plates; Or, The Ingredients of Social Life at Our Station in India. By George Francklin Atkinson, Captain, Bengal Engineers, Author of Pictures from the North, in Pen and Pencil, The Campaign in India, 1857-1858, etc. etc. etc. / Second EditionDay & Son, London, c. 1860.
Contemporary full black morocco with blind- and gilt-tooled floral borders and cornerpieces, densely-gilt spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt title on two, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers marbled. , In reference to the copy in Abbey Travel, all plates are present, however our copy lacks the poem leaf, the preface leaf, and two leaves of descriptive text (2. Our Station, and 40. Our Departure for Home). Otherwise a fine copy in original gilt decorative full black morocco, text and plates are clean and crisp., 4to., P. (4), lith. title, blank, title, blank, dedication, blank, list of plates, blank, 39 plates with 37 leaves of accompanying descriptions, (4)., Complete with 40 tinted lithographic plates of various scenes of British colonial life in India, mostly lithographed by F. Jones, G. McCulloch, R. M. Bryson, and E. Walker after Atkinson’s original drawings. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of George Francklin Atkinson : Curry & Rice, on Forty Plates; Or, The Ingredients of Social Life at Our Station in India. By George Francklin Atkinson, Captain, Bengal Engineers, Author of Pictures from the North, in Pen and Pencil, The Campaign in India, 1857-1858, etc. etc. etc. / Second Edition. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, first editions, livres d'occasion, used books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |