India.

4to (330 x 265mm.), 31 large watercolours by Florence Iacomb to illustrate The Story of Damayanti, each mounted recto and verso in window mounts to replicate a book, comprising 2 full-page watercolours (perhaps for use as a frontispiece and/or cover), title page as above, 3 decorative pages and 25 pictorial pages combining views and natural history subjects with space left for the story (here the space is occupied by a pencil description of the illustration rather than the story); together with 20 watercolours at the end of birds and flowers similarly presented, presumably by the same artist, and a few loose items, contemporary morocco binding, gilt edges, mounts spotted, binding slightly rubbed and marked

Iacomb's Indian Fables from the Hitopadesa which is referred to in the title of this work was published in c.1862-65 by Day and Son with chromolithographed illustrations by W.R.Tymms. These watercolours, which have been arranged and presented as if for a book seem never to have been published. See illustration on page 104.