PLAYNE, SOMERSET (COMPILER), EDITED BY ARNOLD WRIGHT.

Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: Their History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources.

[London and New York.]: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., 1917. Stock ID #214418

Numerous black and white photographic illustrations. 768pp. Full red morocco binding, spine lettered and ruled in gilt in compartments, 'Tiger head' emblematical device stamped in gilt on the upper board (repeated in gilt on the title page), corner ornaments blocked in gilt. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, light rubbing to corners but a lavishly produced edition in exceptional condition. 30 x 23.5cm

One of a series of publications published with the object of supplying the British public with a picture - complete as far as literary and pictorial effort could make it - of the several different parts of the Empire. (in this instance Northern India.)

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