• Rare example of Typical pictures of Indian natives by F.M. Coleman, published by The Times of India Office, in 1897, publisher's original cloth, 24 full-colour plates.
  • Rare example of Typical pictures of Indian natives by F.M. Coleman, published by The Times of India Office, in 1897, publisher's original cloth, 24 full-colour plates.
  • Rare example of Typical pictures of Indian natives by F.M. Coleman, published by The Times of India Office, in 1897, publisher's original cloth, 24 full-colour plates.
  • Rare example of Typical pictures of Indian natives by F.M. Coleman, published by The Times of India Office, in 1897, publisher's original cloth, 24 full-colour plates.
  • Rare example of Typical pictures of Indian natives by F.M. Coleman, published by The Times of India Office, in 1897, publisher's original cloth, 24 full-colour plates.
  • Rare example of Typical pictures of Indian natives by F.M. Coleman, published by The Times of India Office, in 1897, publisher's original cloth, 24 full-colour plates.
  • Rare example of Typical pictures of Indian natives by F.M. Coleman, published by The Times of India Office, in 1897, publisher's original cloth, 24 full-colour plates.
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Coleman, F.M.;

Typical Pictures of Indian Natives.

Typical Pictures of Indian Natives.

Being reproductions from specially prepared hand-coloured photographs with descriptive letterpress.

Stock Code 121652

Bombay, London, The Times of India Office, 1897.

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' By the same token, plain photographs fail to convey an adequate idea of the real picture to those whom fortune – or misfortune – has never sent eastward, and it is with a view, therefore, to enable travellers to present to their friends at home a true rendering of the varied and picturesque costumes worn by natives of India in general and of Bombay in particular, that this little book is presented to the public.'

As General Manager of 'The Times of India', F.M Coleman was only one of a select number of British Colonials who undertook a comprehensive study of Indian people during the age of Empire.

4to (280 x 190mm); patterned endpapers, frontispiece, title, 24 plates divided by tissue-guards, spotting mostly to tissue-guards; original cloth, red and black lettering to front board, black lettering to spine, slight fading to lettering, minor shelf wear, corners are bumped, [xii]ads, 50pp, [vii]ads.

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