Attributed to NICHOLAS & CO.

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Attributed to NICHOLAS & CO.

Sketches of Native Life and Character in Southern India From the 'Madras Times', Madras: Higginbotham and Co., 1869

Extra-illustrated with nineteen albumen prints including three mounted together as frontispiece, six trimmed to oval, carte-de-visite-size, text by F.E.W., printed contents, title page, stamped in ink E.F. Gordon Tucker...Oxford on front blank, brown cloth, decorative gilt border with stamped gilt centrepiece of two native figures carrying food, titled in gilt on spine, small 4to.

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The photographs, which have been added to the originally unillustrated text, are portrait studies of native types and are thought to be the work of the firm of Nicholas & Co.

John P. Nicholas was a commercial photographer who operated from Mount Toad, Madras c.1858-c. 1905, although he actually left Madras c.1895. He entered into partnership as Nicholas and Curths c.1869-73 and set up branches at Bangalore c.1872-73 and Ootacamund c.1868-75.

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