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TITLE: Sakoontala; or The Lost Ring, an Indian Drama
AUTHOR: Monier Williams
PUBLISHER: Stephen Austin
PLACE: Hertford
YEAR: 1855
EDITION: First
BINDING: Most impressive elaborate binding - for the publisher, Stephen Austin of Hertford - by Zaehnsdorf , full green Moroccan calf leather, heavily decorated in gilt with a central pictorial roundel within a floral design, title also gilt decorated, title in gilt on spine, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles,elaborate endpapers; title enclosed within red-ruled border; colour printed head and tail-pieces, borders, and an added colour-printed title, plus 16 colour-printed plates.
NO.OF PAGES: pp 227 + 27+ xxv, 17 plates
SIZE:
Height: 23 cm
Width: 18.5 cm
Depth: 3 cm

DELUXE EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST LAVISH PUBLICATION OF 19TH CENTURY IN MOST ELABORATE BINDING BY ZAEHNSDORF

The publisher issued the book in various bindings, including cloth and half-leather; this example is the deluxe version. "The pictorial borders to the illustrations, as well as that round each page, and the other ornaments and decorations, are taken from MSS in the British Museum and the Library of the East India House. They have been designed by Mr T Sulman Jun, and engraved by Mr George Measom."

An extraordinarily lavish production in good condition.

An episode from the Mahabharata. Monier Williams later became Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford.