Lot 183
India.- Watson (John Forbes) The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India, India Museum, W.H. Allen and Co., 1867.
Hammer Price: £1,200
Description
India.- Watson (John Forbes) The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India, 12 plates, of which 9 mounted composite albumen prints (8 hand-coloured), 2 lithographed and one chromolithographed, pencil annotation to title and the occasional pencil mark elsewhere, title and following f. water-stained, one or two plates with chip or short tear to lower-margin, some spotting and soiling, bookplate of Sir Henry Maine, another bookplate removed from front free endpaper, ex-library copy with ink-stamps and references to endpapers and title verso, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, remains of sticker to spine foot, some wear to extremities, rubbed and soiled, folio, India Museum, W.H. Allen and Co., 1867.
⁂ Including plates of turbans, male and female attire in cotton and silk, cashmere shawls, chogas, carpets &c. The work was first printed for the India Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1866.
Description
India.- Watson (John Forbes) The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India, 12 plates, of which 9 mounted composite albumen prints (8 hand-coloured), 2 lithographed and one chromolithographed, pencil annotation to title and the occasional pencil mark elsewhere, title and following f. water-stained, one or two plates with chip or short tear to lower-margin, some spotting and soiling, bookplate of Sir Henry Maine, another bookplate removed from front free endpaper, ex-library copy with ink-stamps and references to endpapers and title verso, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, remains of sticker to spine foot, some wear to extremities, rubbed and soiled, folio, India Museum, W.H. Allen and Co., 1867.
⁂ Including plates of turbans, male and female attire in cotton and silk, cashmere shawls, chogas, carpets &c. The work was first printed for the India Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1866.
