NON-EXPORTABLE
(Set of six)
a)
TITLE: Gardens of the Great Mughals
AUTHOR: C M Villiers Stuart
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1913
NO.OF PAGES: xviii + 290 pages including 40 colour plates whichare from the watercolour drawings by the author + 10 plans
BINDING: Original publishers cloth binding
SIZE: 22.5 x 15.5 x 4.5 cm
b)
TITLE: Southern India Painted By Lady Lawley. Described by F E Penny
AUTHOR: F E Penny
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1914
NO.OF PAGES: xi + 257 pages including 50 colour plates + 1 black and white map
BINDING: Original publishers cloth binding
SIZE: 22 x 16 x 4.7 cm
c)
TITLE: Durbar
AUTHOR: Mortimer Menpes
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1903
NO.OF PAGES: xii + 210 pages including 100 colour plates
BINDING: Original publisher's pictorial cloth binding, with top edges gilt
SIZE: 23 x 17 x 4.5 cm
d)
TITLE: Armies of India by Major A C Lovett
AUTHOR: Major G F MacMann. D S O
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1911
NO.OF PAGES: xiv + 224 pages including 72 colour plates
BINDING: Publisher's original red cloth lettered and pictorially decorated on the upper cover in black and on the spine in gilt and blind
SIZE: 23 x 16.7 x 4.2 cm
SUPERB WORK ON THE INDIAN REGIMENTS
With its lavish colour plates of regimental uniforms of men as well as local scenes, and accounts of colonial armies and military histories of Imperial India, this book is an indispensable work for historians and collectors alike. The watercolours by Lovett illustrate the full dress and field service dress uniforms of the Indian Army.
e)
TITLE: Kashmir Painted by Edward Molyneux, Described by Francis Young Husband
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1924
NO.OF PAGES: xii + 238 pages including 32 colour illustrations
BINDING: Blue cover boards with gold writing to the spine and embossed front cover
SIZE: 21 x 15 x 4 cm
f)
TITLE: India Painted by Mortimer Menpes, Described by Flora Annie Steel
AUTHOR: Flora Annie Steel
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1923
NO.OF PAGES: x + 220 pages including 32 colour illustrations
BINDING: Blue cloth binding with gilted title on the spine
SIZE: 21 x 15 x 4 cm
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