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HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1998. Subtitled 'Or the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India'. A light hearted account of life in India, with 40 delightful vignettes, including 'Our Colonel', 'Our Padre', 'Our Magistrate's Wife', 'Our Racecourse', 'Our Bazar', 'Our Agriculturists' and "Our Nuwab'. Each is accompanied by a watercolour illustration. The Colonial Library of Dignified Irreverence reprint of 1911 edition. 160 pp., 39 colour sketches, gilt edges. Fifth Edition. Decorative Cloth. As New. 24 x 18.5 cm.

New Delhi: Time Books International, 1982. New edn. Oblong 4to. Original gilt lettered silk cloth (boards a little marked with some discolouration - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (rubbed at head of spine and top edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Unpaginated, illus with 40 sepia plates (no inscriptions).

Time Books International New Delhi, 1982. Hbk oblong 4to (12.5Óx10Ó), 171pp, facsimile of the 1859 edition, illustr 40 full-page sepia-tone lithographs, an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in fine, unclipped and sleeve-protected dj, as new, becoming harder to find

London : Day & Son , 1859. 1st edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine lacking; spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 90 unnumbered pages, 25 out of 40 color plates, 29 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. Subjects; Manners and customs. British India Social life and customs 19th century.

London: John B. Day, Lithographer, Printer and Publisher, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt blocked cloth. Pages worn and some loose but present. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: [91] p : 39 col. pl ; 30 cm. Notes: Added t.-p., illus., in colors.Subjects: India Social life and customs.

London: Day & Son, 1870. No printed date, circa 1860/1870.Book measures 30x21.5.cm. 40 lithographic plates, including vignette title.,Bound in original publishers gilt cloth. Cloth rubbed, some abrasion wear on corners of boards. Internally, pages and plates clean. A good solid copy. . Third Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good. Quarto.

London:: John B. Day, Lithographer, Printer, and Publisher,, [1859].. publisher's orange elaborately gilt cloth, a.e.g., rebacked retaining the original spine.. Some marginal chipping and edgewear to some plates; some occasional light stains; cloth soiled and worn, but tight and sound.. Small folio,. Illustrated from 40 tinted lithographic plates of scenes of life in India..

London: Day & Son. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. 4to. Nd. c.1860. First edition? A near very good copy in the original orange cloth which is elaborately decorated in gilt on the spine and upper board. The spine is darkened but the lettering is readable. All edges gilt. New end-papers. Two ownership inscriptions, the earlier of which is dated 1860. Unpaginated. 40 lithographic plates, showing scenes from life in British India, all of which are tissue-guarded other than the title page. Some foxing mainly to early pages and to edges of some plates. A humorous account of life in a Bengal "station" in the middle of the 19th century. A decent copy. Photographs on request.

London: Day and Son, [c. 1860]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, unpaginated; VG-; bound in full red calf binding, with gilt design; early 20th century rebacking, with previous boards and most of spine preserved; spine paneled, with gilt lettering and design; some shelf wear and soiling; mild wear to corners; all edges gilt; blue ribbon bookmark; some age-toning and foxing throughout textblock; illustrated with 39 limited-color lithograph plates plus vignette title page; pages clean; shelved Case 9. 1353866. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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.

London: Day and Son, 1859. Cloth. Very Good. 12" by 8.5". George Francklin Atkinson. A profusely illustrated work regarding India in the nineteenth century. Providing a somewhat satirical insight into the colonies in occupied India. This is the second edition of this work, and is held in the publisher's original binding. An undated work, dated using the Oxford University and National Library of Scotland entries on copac. In a well-preserved condition, with the plates remaining relatively bright. Illustrated, with forty plates drawn by the author, George Francklin Atkinson. Collated, complete. Adhered to the work, at the gutter of the poem following the dedication is a photograph of a young Indian lady in traditional dance costume, wearing ghungroos and a large jewellery headpiece. The photograph is undated. Loosely inserted is a photograph of a large house in the countryside, this photo is undated also. Each satirical illustration has two pages of accompanying text. The text and… Read More