Glimpses of India: A Grand Photographic History of India of the Land of Antiquity, the Vast Empire of the East

J H Furneaux, Glimpses of India: A Grand Photographic History of India of the Land of Antiquity, the Vast Empire of the East: With 500 superbly reproduced camera views of her cities, temples, towers, public buildings, fortifications, tombs, mosques, palaces, waterfalls, natural wonders, and pictures of the various types of her people. Also, supplementary photographic views of Burmah, Ceylon, Cashmere and Aden, Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, circa 1896

xv, 544 pages, profusely illustrated with plates; rebound three quarter leather binding with gilt text at the spine, original board with blind stamped title
11.5 x 13.75 x 1.5 in (29 x 35 x 4 cm)

A first edition of this work on the history of India, written from a British colonial viewpoint. Featuring eight rare coloured photographic plates, including a frontispiece. 'With full historical text, by a corps of well-known writers, edited by J. H. Furneaux'. J. H. Furneaux was a sub-editor in the then British-owned Times of India in Bombay. Written around forty years after the first national uprising in India in 1857, Furneaux's loyalty to British rule can be seen throughout the work, as he explains how British forces successfully suppressed the 30,000 mutineers.

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