NON-EXPORTABLE
TITLE: Ulwar and Its Art Treasures
AUTHOR: Thomas Holbein Hendley
PUBLISHER: W. Griggs
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1888
BINDING: Cloth bound with foliate borders covered with plastic cover
NO.OF PAGES: 110 including chromolithographed title, portrait and 80 plates (numbered 1-79, mostly chromolithographed, 2 double-pages)
SIZE:
Height: 37.5 cm
Width: 27.5 cm
Depth: 3.1 cm
Hendley based his pioneering study of Mughal art treasures on the extensive collection of the Maharaja of Ulwar ("at whose whole cost this book is published", and the total value of which the author estimated at the sum of about two million pounds sterling), and research he carried out "in the native capitals of Rajputana".
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