INDIA-PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

The book has a leather rebound with decorative gold tooling and a spine has been relaid, the book has 100 plates with short introductory texts at beginning of each "chapter"; overall, there are 49 gorgeous plates in chromolithography, including gold printing, of which 9 are folding out; the black and white plates are photographs of monuments, and are depicting artefacts, or are architectural plans, drawings and sections. 100 plates reproduced by W. Griggs from the Collection in the late office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India. Text and plates are brittle but professionally restored and all the pages are re-backed by acid free Japanese handmade tissue paper.

William Griggs (1832-1911) was a photographer, inventor of an advanced chromolithography known as photo-chromolithography. He was associated with the India Office and made outstanding and very expensive book productions for which he produced coloured illustrations including many works about Indian and Oriental artefacts.

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