JACKSON, A. V. Williams (ed.)

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History of India. The Connoisseur Edition, number 38 of 200 sets, a handsome set, attractively printed and illustrated, and offering a comprehensive history of the subcontinent through to the beginning of the 20th century.The editor, A. V. Williams Jackson, was a leading American authority on Indo-European languages, which he taught at Columbia, and eventually became director of the American Oriental Society. Each volume is written by a specialist: Vol. I, to the sixth century BC, by Romesh Chunder Dutt; Vol. II, to the Mohammedan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great, by Vincent A. Smith; Vols. III-IV, mediaeval India to the reign of Akbar the Great, by Stanley Lane-Poole; Vol. V, the Mohammedan period as described by its own historians, selected by Sir Henry Meirs Elliot; Vols. VI-VII, from the first European settlements to the founding of the East India Company, by Sir William Wilson Hunter; Vol. VIII, from the close of the 17th century to the present time, by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall; and Vol. IX, historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, collected by the editor.The Grolier Society was founded by publisher Walter M. Jackson and specialized in fine limited editions, borrowing the name of the bibliophilic Grolier Club, which in turn took its name from the great French 16th-century collector Jean Grolier.

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