Curry & Rice

On Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India

ATKINSON, George Francklin

ATKINSON, George Francklin Curry & Rice On Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India

W. Thacker & Co., 1860.

Second edition. 4to. Recased with original spine relaid. Cinnamon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. Elaborate decorations in gilt and stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Forty colour plates, under tissue guards, from the original sketches by the author. A very good copy, tanned and gilt faded to spine and covers. Endpapers replaced. Internally, spots of foxing and signs of worming to the page edges of chapter title pages "Tiger Shooting" and "Our Cook Room".

Originally published in 1859, just after the Indian Mutiny, Atkinson, a Captain in the Bengal Engineers, looks at the "sunny side of Indian life, after all the narratives of horror that have of late fallen upon the English ear" [Preface]. Using forty subject headings, each accompanied by one of Atkinson's keenly observed illustrations, the book gently satirises British officials and residents in the fictional village of Kabob.

Stock ID: 46344

£300.00

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