ARNOLD, Thomas & J. V. S. WILKINSON. Chronicle of Akbar the Great. A Description of a Manuscript of the Akbar-Nama Illustrated by the Court Painters, Oxford: The Roxburghe Club, 1937. 2° (452 x 322mm.). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 33 plates, a few coloured, printed by Emery Walker. Original plum morocco-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. (Spine and sections of covers faded, some light dust-soiling). Provenance: A. Chester Beatty (compliment slip loosely-inserted).

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ARNOLD, Thomas & J. V. S. WILKINSON. Chronicle of Akbar the Great. A Description of a Manuscript of the Akbar-Nama Illustrated by the Court Painters, Oxford: The Roxburghe Club, 1937. 2° (452 x 322mm.). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 33 plates, a few coloured, printed by Emery Walker. Original plum morocco-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. (Spine and sections of covers faded, some light dust-soiling). Provenance: A. Chester Beatty (compliment slip loosely-inserted).

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