“Curry & Rice,” on Forty Plates; or, the Ingredients of Social Life at “Our Station” in India
London: Day & Son, n.d. (c.1860). Edition: Third Edition., Binding: Full orange cloth boards, rebacked, preserving original cloth. Upper illustrated in gilt and blind pictorial design. Top edges gilt. , Notes: Very good example of this unique work on life in India in the 19th century.
George Francklin Atkinson (1822–1859) was a British artist and writer and an officer of the Bengal Engineers. His paintings depicted colonial life and military battles, mainly in India. He was the son of James Atkinson who was also an artist, as well as a surgeon and a Persian scholar. Atkinson served with the Bengal Engineers between 1840 and 1859, and witnessed the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857.
, Size: Quarto. (300 x 215 mm), Illustration: Illustrated with 40 handcoloured lithograph plates. , Pages: (P) Illustrated title. Blank. Title. Blank. Dedication. Blank. Poem. Blank. Preface (2). List of subjects. Blank. 40 plates and accompanying text leaves. , Category: Book Asia Central India & Ceylon / Sri Lanka;. Occasional spotting, interior else clean and crisp. Item #B7314
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