SOUTHERN INDIA Painted by Lady Lawley and Described by F. E. Penny
SOUTHERN INDIA Painted by Lady Lawley and Described by F. E. Penny

SOUTHERN INDIA Painted by Lady Lawley and Described by F. E. Penny

(London: A. & C. Black, 1914).

AN ELUSIVE TITLE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE VERY BEAUTIFUL ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK TRAVEL BOOKS AND AN ESPECIALLY INTERESTING ENTRY IN THE COLLECTION. First edition, exquisitely illustrated by the wife of the Governor of Madras who lived in Southern India for over six years and who had close ties with the Maharaja of Mysore. Lady Lawley's landscapes have a bright and almost impressionistic quality, but she truly excels with her portraits, which display beautifully the richness of Indian fabrics and jewelry in vivid detail. Item #28528

First Edition. With fifty impressive colourplates from the paintings of Lady Lawley and with a folding map. Large 8vo, in the original orange cloth lavishly decorated in Indian style in yellow, brown and black on the upper cover and spine and lettered in gilt on the spine. xi, 257, [10] pp. An unusually handsome copy beautifully preserved, the text clean and fresh, the plates all very fine and the cloth bright and clean and fresh with no fading.

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