First published in 1888, this encyclopedic handbook became the standard reference work for all British women taking up management of a household in India. Packed with numerous recipes, and practical advice for managing servants, cleaning and organizing the house as well as providing food when travelling and camping in the wilderness.
Written by Flora Annie Steel, the noted novelist of 19th century India, and her friend, Grace Gardiner. It ran to many editions over the next 50 years, and was revised and extended to reflect the changing conditions and prices in India. Today it provides an invaluable guide as to how the British in India organized their domestic economy. This new edition is taken from the 1921 edition.
ISBN: 978-1904289-57-9. A5 Soft covers pp:314. / b/w line illust. Price: 16.00 (plus 1.20p UK postage / EEC airmail: 1.55p / 2.62 worldwide airmail postage)
CAMERA SHIKAR AND GUIDE FOR VISITORS TO KASHMIR by Randolph B. Holmes (Holmes of Peshawar)
Originally pseudonomously produced by Holmes in 1921, under the nom-de-plume of Browyn Longnose Brown; this journal and guidebook gives a rare insight into the work and travels of one of British India’s more flamboyant professional photographers. An amusingly written account of his travels; it is an informative period guide to exploring and photographing Srinagar and the surrounding mountains and valleys of Kashmir; extensively illustrated with his own photographs and paintings. This new edition is re-published, for the first time since the original, by Pagoda Tree Press in January 2009. ISBN: 978-1904289-56-2. A5 PB pp:114 with b/w & colour illustrations. Price 14.00 (plus 1.20p UK postage / EEC airmail: 1.55p / 2.62 worldwide airmail postage)M
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF JODHPUR – MARWAR 1896.
A New edition of a small guide Book and history of Jodhpur; originally published in Jodhpur in 1896. One of the rarer and more ephemeral items of Indian photographic history; it contains 7 photographs of Jodhpur by the noted local photographers Oodey Ram & Gobind Ram; which in the original were mounted albumen prints. It gives a brief general history of the city and its rulers, and apart from the photographs, is illustrated with maps of the area. Format: A5 PB booklet, pp: 30 / 6 b/w & col. maps/ 7 col. plates from albumen print photographs.
ISBN: 978-1904289-24-1. Price: 6.00 (plus 0.50p UK postage / EEC airmail: 1.00p / 1.50 worldwide airmail postage)
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