Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India. Second Series

John Forbes Watson, Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India. Second Series, London: Indian Office for the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington Museum [later the Victoria & Albert Museum], 1881

Title page followed by 94 chromolithographed plates in gold and silver and a multitude of colors on thick card and signed in plate: W. Griggs, photo-litho, India Museum (numbered 2–28, 40–41, 48, 56–68, 70–71, 73–75, 77–80, 84, 86–94, 96–101, 101a, 103–104, 108, 110–120, 122–123, 125–126, 129–133, 386, 388), each mounted on guards and printed with caption titles in letterpress and plate numbers below each printed image indicating region, material, and local terminology. Lacking 47 plates (nos. 1, 29–39, 42–47, 49–55, 69, 72, 76, 81–83, 85, 95, 102, 105–107, 109, 121, 124, 127–128, 387); original publisher’s tan cloth portfolio, retaining yellow gilt-embossed title panel to upper cover, with red silk ribbon marker, top edges gilt.
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