India.- Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India, printed title, 85 chromolithographed plates only (of 86), tissue-guards (some torn or lacking), endpapers and title creased and frayed at edges with one endpaper working loose, few plates with very small markings/tiny puncture-hole to lower-margin, few very short marginal tears, some light soiling, title and some plates foxed, but largely clean, bookplates and labels of Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art Library, ink-stamps and embossed stamp to title and small ink-stamp to each plate, contemporary cloth-backed boards, portion of original gilt-lettered yellow cloth laid down on upper cover, library sticker to spine foot, joints split with much loss to spine, worn, folio, Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington Museum, 1881.

⁂ Collection of plates of Indian textiles from the Victoria & Albert Museum (then South Kensington Museum), including many designs for turbans, garments, mats, shawls &c from various regions. The number of plates called for appears to be 86, although copies do vary. Most copies we can trace have library stamps.