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Original Sketches in the Punjaub. By a Lady. London: Dickinson, 1854.
Oblong 2° (264 x 337mm). 20 handcoloured lithographs. (Marginal staining affecting last two plates, tear to margin of one leaf and short neat tear not affecting plates, some spotting, title page creased.) Contemporary cloth, lettered in gilt on front board (extremities discoloured, neat tears at foot of spine, corners bumped).
RARE, 'possibly privately published' (Abbey loc. cit) collection of drawings of Lahore and Umritsir by a wife of an Officer serving with his regiment in India. 'No attempt has been made to draw pictures as they ought to be; the desire has been to convey to an English eye some notion of the bright, vivid colouring of Indian scenes' (preface). Abbey Travel, 483.
Oblong 2° (264 x 337mm). 20 handcoloured lithographs. (Marginal staining affecting last two plates, tear to margin of one leaf and short neat tear not affecting plates, some spotting, title page creased.) Contemporary cloth, lettered in gilt on front board (extremities discoloured, neat tears at foot of spine, corners bumped).
RARE, 'possibly privately published' (Abbey loc. cit) collection of drawings of Lahore and Umritsir by a wife of an Officer serving with his regiment in India. 'No attempt has been made to draw pictures as they ought to be; the desire has been to convey to an English eye some notion of the bright, vivid colouring of Indian scenes' (preface). Abbey Travel, 483.
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