Author:
COLESWORTHY Grant
Title:
Rural Life In Bengal: Illustrative of Anglo-Indian Suburban Life; More Particularly In Connection With The Planter And Peasantry. The Varied Produce Of The Soil And Seasons; With Copious Details Of The Culture And Manufacture Of Indigo
Price:
£450.00
Year:
1860
Edition:
!st Edn
Publisher:
William Thacker & Co
Summary:
xii 203 + (viii) advert, frontis coloured map of Mulnath and Environs, 166 engravings within the text, small paper tear to inner blank margin to 1/2 title, 3cm x 1cm, new matching rear end paper. Publishers green cloth, gilt title and native vignette to upper board with gilt title and decorative border to spine. Cloth clean and bright, a vg+ copy. A first hand account of an Indigo planter in West Bengal, in a series of letters to his sisters in pre-mutiny India. He details rural life and the improvements upon the country by the British.
Ref:
20869