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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
The People of India. A series of Photographic Illustrations with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan....
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co. for the India Museum, 1868-75. 8 volumes with a total of approx. 480 albumen prints. Each approx. 9 x 6¾in. (22.8 x 17.2cm.) or reverse. Each with printed title, plate number and descriptive text on mount. Edited by John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, originally prepared under the authority of the Government of India, and reproduced by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Ex-libris set. Many with arched tops or trimmed oval (many with ink library stamps overlapping edges of prints). Each volume with contents and title; vol. I with preface and list of photographers and authors. Each tan half leather (re-backed in orange cloth), gilt title and volume number on leather label affixed to spine.
Each volume: 13 3/8 x 10in. (34 x 25.4cm.) (8)
Literature
See: Desond, Victorian India in Focus, pp. 36-37, pl. 37; Worswick and Embree, The Last Empire, Photography in British India, 1855-1911, pp. 6-7, p. 18, for a variant cropping.
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