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1911 "Curry and Rice," on Forty Plates: Or, the Ingredients of a Social Life at "Our Station" in India
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The fifth edition of this work.
Illustrated, with forty bright colour plates by the author, George Francklin Atkinson.
Collated, complete.
Each satirical illustration has two pages of accompanying text. The text and photographs depict life at a British colonial station in Bengal. Emphasis is drawn on British officials and residents of a high social status such as the magistrate, colonel and doctor. There is a plate that regards 'our German missionary'. He also focuses on racing, pig-sticking and tiger shooting.
He addresses his humour in the work and says 'my object was not to illustrate perfection but to afford amusement'.
The work of George Francklin Atkinson, a British artist and writer and an officer of the Bengal Engineers. His paintings depicted colonial life and military battles, mainly in India.
Condition
In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with instances of spotting to plate perimeters.
Very Good
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