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TITLE: The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India
AUTHOR: John Forbes Watson
PUBLISHER: India Museum
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1867
BINDING: Bound in half leather with new spine and in original cloth bound cover
NO.OF PAGES: pp. xxi + 174 including 9 tipped hand colored photographs + 1 b & w plate + 1 photo and chromo-lithographed plate + 1 photo-lithographed plate
SIZE:
Height: 36.7 cm
Width: 28 cm
Depth: 2.3 cm
Prepared Under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council
The foregoing illustrations have been mainly selected from the extreme series of photographs of the "People of India" as reproduced in the department. The grouping and arrangement of the different subjects is by the author. Their photographic reproductions is by W. Griggs, and the colouring of the copies, designed more perfectly to illustrate the costumes of the people, has been done under the author's directions by H. Wills and J. Foley.
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