THROUGH INDIA AND BURMAH With Pen and Brush

T. Werner Laurie, 1911

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Year of publication

1911

Place of printing

London

Author

[India, Burmah], Fisher

Publishers

T. Werner Laurie

Edition

FIRST EDITION, A RARELY ENCOUNTERED SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

First edition

Yes

Description

First Edition. Author's INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY to L.A. Legros, the published mechanical engineer and son of painter Alphonse Legros. The author has also made a number of small corrections to the text in manuscript and includes a short note in the margin of page 281 regarding a point in the text which apparently prompted a "serious criticism in The Lancet" Illustrated throughout with 30 full-page plates in both colour and black and white from Fisher's original paintings and drawings. 8vo, publisher's beautifully decorated original red cloth, the spine panel lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper cover lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in white in black with an image of a tiger in the brush, top edge gilt. xii, 358 pp. A fine copy with only very light evidence of age or shelving at the extremities, hinges strong and tight, the text-block clean.