Description:
This book an original publication, not the reproduced one. A major attraction is its hardcover which has beautiful coat of arms designs, ornamentation on border and text printed in gold with red color background and the same have been shown engraved on the back hardcover.For the promotion of Indian art, this book had been written after examining the collections of most of the native princes, and especially their libraries, pictures and portraits.
The book is soiled. Hardcover has wears, tears on edges and corners and some color fade marks. The pages are slightly detached from the spine but binding not loose.
The pages have foxing marks. Some initial pages have slight wears on edges whereas next few pages are in fine condition. The pages of black and white illustrations are fine.
Some colored illustration pages have wears and tears which were pasted with brown tape and some with white tape. A few pages have many cracks, tears, light stains and some part of the page is missing. One colored page in last… Read More