Bombay Gymkhana Album 1880-1891

F C Macrae, Bombay Gymkhana Album 1880-1891, Bombay: A. J. Combridge & Co., 1910. First edition

25 caricatures tipped-in on black sheets as issued, 1 to a page; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards
13 x 10.5 in (32.5 x 26.2 cm)

Rare caricatures of Bombay sporting life.

Macrae was a Bombay caricaturist and book illustrator. These sketches were originally drawn by him at various events involving cricket, polo, golf, football, racing, pigsticking and other sports in Bombay, Poona, Nasik and other cities in and around Bombay and, on demand from the Gymkhana members, were issued loose as original photographs pasted on thick sheets. Nostalgia prompted a Bombay publisher to issue them as a book 20 years later.

Macrae also illustrated numerous other British India-related books, notably 'Behind the Bungalow" by EHA and "Hotch-Potch and Kedgeree" by Sir Allan Arthur.

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