Indian Spices for English Tables, a rare relish of fun from the Far East

Captain George Francklin Atkinson, Indian spices for English Tables, or, A rare relish of fun from the Far East. Being, the adventures of "our special correspondent" in India, illustrated in a series of one hundred and twenty sketches, and exhibiting, in all its phases, the peculiarity of life in that country, London: Day & Son, Ltd., 1860

[vi] pp., Tinted lithographic title page, 27 full-page lithographed plates with vignette sketches from line drawings, with witty explanations beneath, 4 text pages with descriptions of the plate, publisher's advertisements, all the plates are rebacked and pasted on a fresh sheet; leather bound with gilt text at the spine
14.75 x 11 in (37.4 × 28 cm)

First and only edition. Humorous sketches of a trip to India, from landing at Calcutta; travels by palanquin, kranchee and camel; a visit to the bazaar; the joys of the dak bungalow; sporting exploits, shooting tiger from an elephant, and pig-sticking, by the author-artist of Curry and Rice.

Born in 1822, Atkinson entered the East India Company’s army in 1841 and served in the Bengal engineers from then until his death in 1859. From 1854 he was executive engineer for the Umballa division, being responsible for the building of the artillery Mess House, and also St Paul’s Church in Ambala, and which still stands. He was for a while the editor of The Delhi Sketch Book, “the Punch of North India,” and was a contributor to the Illustrated London News and the Leisure Hour.

This book is a highly desirable record of life under the Raj, a rarely-encountered work by one of its best known chroniclers.

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