Author: LOSTY, JEREMIAH P.;BRITISH LIBRARY
Title: Calcutta - City of Palaces: A Survey of the City in the Days of the East India Company 1690-1858
Description: London: The British Library / Arnold Publishers, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0712302042. 136 pages. Index. Bibliography. Published to celebrate the 300th birthday of Calcutta, this book provides "an account of its growth from a trading station of mud huts into a city whose beauty excited the admiration of all visitors... The author has drawn upon a wide range of contemporary accounts of the city and its inhabitants to provide a counterpoint to this visual evidence, giving often charming insights into the way the British conducted themselves in such strange surroundings." - from dust jacket. Wonderfully illustrated in colour and black and white. Few light pencil markings to contents. Usual library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound working copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Calcutta India History Pictorial. Fair in Fair dust jacket .

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