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1913 Gardens of the Great Mughals
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
In the publisher's original blue decorative cloth.
First edition.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, fifteen additional colour plates, twenty-three monochrome plates, and ten detailed garden plans. Collated, complete.
A charming study of the gardens of the Mughal Empire, exploring their history, design, and aesthetic principles.
Mughal gardens, heavily influenced by Persian traditions, especially the Charbagh (four-part) layout, find their most celebrated expression in the Taj Mahal.
Two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Spine faded. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight rubbing to boards. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Bookplate from Allington Castle to front paste down. Rear hinge very slightly cracked, but firm. Iinternally, fimrly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to first and last few leaves.
Very Good
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