Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). Title in red and black with integral vignette and author's name blacked out half-title. Sixteen plates (comprising eight tinted lithographic plates by Hanhart after Knight 7 wood-engraved plates, one mounted folding section from a Tibetan prayer wheel scroll) extra-illustrated with six hand-painted Indian miniatures scenes from the life of Krishna, each mounted on thin card, each with letterpress titling on the card beneath the image 29 wood-engraved illustrations. Original green morocco the covers with triple fillet borders the upper cover blocked in gilt with a Cashmir or Tibet-inspired wheel design the spine in six compartments with raised bands lettered in the second the others with repeat paneling in gilt turn-ins cream glazed endpapers, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION, decorative gilt inner dentelles, extra-illustrated in a deluxe binding. The diary of an officer who, with a brother, officer F." and a manservant "Mr. Rajoo" aka "QMG," took six months' leave from the baking plains of post-Mutiny India to travel and explore the cooler mountainous regions in the north. Together with the extra illustrations, the binding of this copy suggests that this was either the author's copy or a copy that he had prepared for presentation. Support for this supposition comes from the preface, where the author notes that "the concluding sketch [on 'The Religions of Cashmere and Thibet (sic.)] was originally intended to accompany a series of brightly-coloured Cashmeeri designs illustrative of the life of 'Krishna." The reproduction of these in their integrity not being found feasible, the sketch itself may appear de trop." The six extra-illustrations appear to be the originals used as the 'artwork' for the plates. Further support for this is given by the one image that was eventually included as a wood-engraving by the Dalziel brothers ('Birth of Krishna' facing p.312): the style appears to have been very similar to the extra-illustrations. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontis. Ladak. 2. View in Sirinugger. 3. Martund. 4. Pandreton. 5. Rajah's Palace, Ladak. 6. Hindoo Marriage Procession. 7. A Rakshus. 8. Hindoo Temple in the Himalayas. 9. Gunesh. 10. The Young Women of Braj. 11. Krishna goes to claim his Bride. 12. Temple Decoration, Himalayas. 13. An Ocean of Beauty. 14. Ancient Jain Temple.