Indian Art & Architecture Rare The Bookshop

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; numerous photogravure illustrations, including frontispieces, captioned tissue guards, folding map in volume II; publisher's blue cloth, richly gilt, slight offsetting to endpapers, top edge gilt, with original blue linen dustjackets, slightly marked, housed in original blue linen slipcase, a very good set.

16 leaves, watercolours on fibrous paper, each depicting a scene from the Jain vision of heaven or hell, each circa 115 x 265 mm; each image framed within red painted border, reverses blank, some light finger soiling and rubbing, overall bright and attractive examples; paired into two groups of 8, each mounted and framed under glass.