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Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates; or, the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India. Third Edition.
por ATKINSON, George Francklin, Captn
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London: Published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, [c.1860].. Folio (28.5 x 19.5 cm). Contemporary full purple morocco, sides ruled with elaborate gilt border, front cover lettered in gilt with title and the name of "Mrs. J.D. MacDonald", spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 40 full-page tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece, all with tissue guards, by Thomas Picken, George McCulloch, Robert M. Bryson, Alexander Laby, Edmund Walker, and Frederick Jones; after George Francklin Atkinson. Two presentation inscriptions to flyleaf dated 1865 and 1907; additional blue ink ownership inscription to flyleaf. Minimal shelfwear, light fading to spine, some plates very fractionally shaved, occasional light spotting and smudging, withal an excellent copy in a striking binding, presumably commissioned by Mrs. J.D. MacDonald. An amusing satire of British life in mid-19th century India. Abbey, Travel, 487.
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- Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates; or, the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India. Third Edition.
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