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History of India, edited by A.V.Williams Jackson (9volumes-leather bound)

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This limited luxury edition has a issue of 200 copies, this set is number 98. Each book has a handcolored frontispiece, with tissue guards, each volumen averages 300 or more pages, reproductions of historical photographs. Many of the photographs are of architectural nature. Some pages are un-opened, ( not cut) . The binding is quite decorative with four raised bands on the spine, gilt titling and gilt leaf decoration. Marbled endpapers, binders stamp, gilded top of pages. Dark Brown half morocco, vertical floral design.Tall octavo. Contents: Volume 1: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B.C., by Romesh Chunder Dutt; 2: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great, by Vincent A. Smith; 3: Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great, by Stanley Lane-Poole; 4: From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Mogul Empire, by Stanley Lane-Poole; 5: The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians, by Sir Henry Miers Elliot; 6: From the first European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company, by Sir William Wilson Hunter; 7: The European Struggle for Indian Supremacy in the Seventeenth Century, by Sir William Wilson Hunter; 8: From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time, by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall; 9: Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Occidental, by A. V. Williams Jackson.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Leather,Engraved
  • Period:
    1900-1909
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1906
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU989944990332

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