HENDLEY, Thomas H - Lot 58

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HENDLEY, Thomas H - Lot 58
HENDLEY, Thomas H Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883. 4 parties en 1 vol in-4.. (37 x 27 cm), x, 75 pp. frontispiece portrait + 39 plates, many chromolithographic + 42 pp. + [2], 5 colour plates, original cloth bound to an Indian design in d/ w,. An abridgement of the 1883 catalogues, [Jeypore?]: 1893. The Jeypore Exhibition of 1883 was regarded as among the most important industrial exhibitions of 19th century, where specimen of the best art work of India was curated. Credited to the arduous efforts of Thomas Holbein Hendley, a British officer in the princely state of Jaipur, the Exhibition was primarily an attempt to showcase local skills. A permanent 'memorial' of the Exhibition was produced as a four-part set of illustrated volumes, authored by Hendley and commissioned by the visionary Maharaja of Jaipur. The first volume contained a number of chromo-lithographs and a general description of the plates in the first three books of the set. The second and third volumes contained 100 photographs of Indian art work, while Volume IV also included reproductions in platinum of the illustrations of Emperor Akbar's own copy of the Razmanama, the Persian epic. Published by W.H. Griggs, some sets were presented to leading museums of the world, and very few copies were sold. Creswell 137 for 1884 edition
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