The rulers of India and the chiefs of Rajputana.

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HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein.

The rulers of India and the chiefs of Rajputana.

The rulers of India and the chiefs of Rajputana.

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Stock Code 112755

London, Griggs, 1897

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Hendley depicts the rulers of India from the end of the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, starting with the portrait of emperor Akbar, the founder of the Mughal Empire. Hendley worked in a number of positions in India including the Medical Service and the foreign Department.

First edition; folio (38 x 28 cm. approx.), [viii], 42, [xxx](printed on versos only)pp., coloured frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria, 7 monochrome plates of British rulers etc. (4 showing multiple subjects), 18 plates of Indian rulers of which 17 chromolithographed, all showing multiple subjects, original red cloth gilt, upper cover slightly bowed, a very god copy.

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