Accession number
PML 142742
Creator
Kālidāsa.
Published
Hertford [England] : Printed and published by Stephen Austin, bookseller to the East-India College, 1855.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title within red line border.
Added color illustrated t.p.
Error in paging: p. [xxxii] numbered xxviii.
Illustrated with 15 b&w wood engraved illustrations, including frontispiece; plates and text decorated with color wood engraved borders, ornaments, and head and tail-pieces; full page color half t.p. following introductory text in addition to the added illustrated t.p..
"The pictorial borders to the illustrations, as well as that round each page, and the other ornaments and decorations, are taken from mss. in the British Museum and the library of the East India House. They have been designed by Mr. T. Sulman, Jun., and engraved by Mr. George Measom"--p. [xxviii].
Added color illustrated t.p.
Error in paging: p. [xxxii] numbered xxviii.
Illustrated with 15 b&w wood engraved illustrations, including frontispiece; plates and text decorated with color wood engraved borders, ornaments, and head and tail-pieces; full page color half t.p. following introductory text in addition to the added illustrated t.p..
"The pictorial borders to the illustrations, as well as that round each page, and the other ornaments and decorations, are taken from mss. in the British Museum and the library of the East India House. They have been designed by Mr. T. Sulman, Jun., and engraved by Mr. George Measom"--p. [xxviii].
Description
xxvii [i.e. xxxii], 227, [1], 24, [2] p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. (wood engravings) ; 22 cm.
Provenance
Bookplates of F.W. Kingsford and Hugh Sadler Kingsford; from the library of Forrest Reid; J.N. Hart; and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's green morocco elaborately blocked in gold, gauffered edges, by Stephen Austin; signed "T. Sulman inv." and "Knights & Keeling sc." on the front board.
Classification
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