Folio, sketch map of India, frontispiece p.17. Bowlee at Boondee, lithographed title, and 23 other tinted lithographed plates, nos. 3, 4 ,6 & 7 with some colour in addition. No. 5 one tint only coloured, no. 10 one tint only, plates drawn and lithographed by T.C. Dibdin, from a sketch by J. Fergusson Esqr. and Printed by M.& N. Hanrart, wood-engraved vignettes in the text, contemporary half red morocco, gilt-ruled, spine raised bands, gilt lettered, edges red. Bookplate of 'Martin T. Smith' to front pastedown. Some foxing. This work was first published in 1848 with the lithographed title dated 1847, as in the British Museum, the letterpress title the same as here. Fergusson was a writer on architecture. He traveled to India to take up a place in a firm of which his elder brother was a partner, Fairlie, Fergusson, & Company, merchants in Calcutta. Soon after he arrived in India at an early age, he started an indigo factory on his own account. As he, fortunately, left the parent company before its failure, he was able in about ten years to retire from business with a moderate competency and to carry out an early resolution of devoting himself to archaeological studies. His antiquarian enthusiasm was boundless, and he was a skilled draughtsman with the camera lucida, much in vogue at this time, following its use with success by the Daniells. His last visit to India was in 1845, but before this, chiefly between 1835 and 1842, he had made the lengthened tours in India which are shown in the map in this work. Schliemann was to dedicate his great work, “Tiryns” to Fergusson as “the historian of architecture, eminent alike for his knowledge of art and for the original genius which he has applied to the solution of some of its most difficult problems.” Coloured plates in order: 1. Great Temple at Bobaneswar. 2. Temple and car of Juganath. Puri. 3. Temple at Kanaruc or Black Pagoda. 4. Temple of Kapila Devi at Bobaneswar. 5. Chaori in Mokundra Pass. 6. Temple at Chandravati. 7. Temples at Barolli. 8. Jaina Tower, Cheetore. 9. Temple of Vimala Sah. Abu. 10. Temple at Sadri. 11. Tower of Victory, Cheetore. 12. Bund of the Lake Rajsamundra. 13. Bund of the Lake Jaysamund. 14. Cenotaph of Amera Singh 2 at Oodeypore. 15. Palace in the Lake at Oodeypore. 16. Palace ay Boondee. 17. Bowlee at Boondee. 18. Pagoda Mahavellipore. 19. Porch of Parvati's Temple at Chillambram. 20. Temple of Sri Rama, Combaconum. 21. Tank in Temple at Seringham. 22. Gateway at Chillumbrum. 23. Gateway at Seringham. [Map] Sketch map of India.