The Costume and Customs of Modern India

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BRITISH LIFE IN THE RAJ Large Paper Copy, with 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, watermarked 1821. Contemporary straight-grain morocco, attractive decorative wide gilt & blind edge tooling, a few marks, corners & edges rubbed. Re-spined, old laid down, raised bands, gilt title & ornate gilt tooling. Internally, frontis, [3], (vi-xxiii) preface, (60 pp) not paginated (signatures: B-L2), 20 hand coloured plates (numbered, dated 1813 & titled, within pink washed frame), a.e.g., bound without the half title, old repaired margin tear to C3, not dated but c1823/4, plates watermarked J Whatman Turkey Mill 1821, text leaves watermarked 1822 & 23, horizontal crease to last 2 blanks, book plates to fpd (John Morrice; Hermann Marx of Cobham, Surrey). With 2 loose additional plates: Native Tailor, B&W, & Native Barber, coloured. (366*264 mm). (Abbey Travel 440; Colas 888; Lipperheide 1486; Tooley 184). D'Oyly was a civil servant in the East India Company who published a series of works with his lithographs of the region and its people. The plates in this work are identical to those in The European in India, which was published by Orme in 1813 (Abbey 435). 0