Set of two books on the ancient Rajasthan

a) Gabrielle Festing, From the Land of Princes. With a Preface by Sir George Birdwood, London: Smith,Elder, & Co., 1904, first edition

lxxx + 375 pages + (9) pp; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and with the gilt crest of the Maharana of Udaipur to the upper board
7.5 x 5.25 x 1.5 in (19.5 x 13.5 x 4 cm )

A collection of stories or "chronicles" of Rajasthan, the aforementioned "Land of Princes". The majority of the chapters are collected under the beading of "Stories of Mewar and Marwar", the remaining few under "Stories of Amber", "...Haras" and "...Jessulmer"

b) Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod, Tod's Annals of Rajasthan: The Annals of Mewar, London: Routledge c Sons, Limited, [1912].

xvi + 216 pages including 16 plates and a folding map of Mewar; publisher's maroon buckram, gilt lettered to the spine
19 x 13 x 3.5 cm

This work was originally published in 1832, but this edition is edited by abridged and edited by C H Payne.

Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (1782 –1835) was an English-born officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar. He combined his official role and his amateur interests to create a series of works about the history and geography of India, and in particular the area then known as Rajputana that corresponds to the present-day state of Rajasthan, and which Tod referred to as Rajas'han.

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