Album of Views in India

by Samuel Bourne, Raja Lala Deen Dayal, c., Diyal

$13,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Full dark blue morocco, spine lettered and lined gilt, textured endpapers A richly composed album documenting colonial India through the lenses of its two most celebrated nineteenth-century photographers, with an unusually large proportion of images devoted to Delhi and Lucknow. This substantial album of sixty-eight mounted albumen prints brings together the work of Samuel Bourne, co-founder of Bourne & Shepherd and the pre-eminent early interpreter of India's

• Binding: Leather

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