Life in Bombay and Neighbouring outstations, with Illustrations

James Gray, Life in Bombay and Neighbouring outstations, with Illustrations, London: Richard Bentley, 1852

pp. xvi, 350 + 12 tinted lithographic plates; original binding with new matching spine, the original title pasted on it.
10.5 x 7 in (26.3 x 17.5 cm)

Ex-library copy.

Rarest book on early Bombay social history. An excellent descriptive and visual record of the period.

"The public has been so long accustomed to contemplate India, either through the magic glass of imagination, as the land of gorgeous palaces and inexhaustible treasures, or through the scarcely less deceptive halo of military glory as the battle-field of contending armies and opposing dynasties; that we feel some serious misgivings, whilst we invite them to survey her with the natural eye, as she really is, in these sober days of peace, when the 'hurly-burly' of our battles lost and won has died away, and all that now is heard to remind us of them, is an occasional; shot resounding through the Khyber Pass, and re-echoed from the far-distant mountains of Affghanistan" (Preface).

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