Various Authors

A finely bound set of the History of India.

• Sold as a set of 9 volumes.
• Various Authors.
• London: The Grolier Society, 1906-07.
• Quarto.
• Extra-illustrated with numerous plates and illustrations, some in color.
• The “Connoisseur Edition”, number 3 of 200 copies.
• Edges untrimmed, original half green morocco, marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt foliage motif, top edges gilt.

A beautifully bound set of this survey of Indian history. This limited edition is extra-illustrated with many of the plates duplicated, in black and white or color. Each volume has its own author: volume 1 by Romesh Chunder Dutt; volume 2 by Vincent A. Smith, volume 3 and 4 by Stanley Lane-Poole, volume 5 by Sir Henry Miers Elliot, volume 6 and 7 by Sir William Wilson Hunter, volume 8 by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, and volume 9 by A. V. Williams Jackson.

Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1862-1937) was an American specialist on Indo-European languages, particularly those in Zoroastrian manuscripts. He visited India in 1901, and was received warmly the Parsees.