SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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MOOR, Edward, Maj.
Plates illustrating the Hindu Pantheon, reprinted from the work of Major Edward Moor, F.R.S. edited, with brief descriptive terxt by The Rev. Allen Page Moor

Early writing in English on the Hindu religion.

Published
London: Williams and Norgate, 1861.
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
London: Williams and Norgate, 1861.
Ref
490

Large 4to. (32 x 26 cm.). pp.17+[2 index]. Original blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt vignette repeating frontispiece on the upper cover, spine gilt-lettered with five decorative figures in gilt cream endpapers all edges gilt. Ex libris Keber Mardon. One hundred four engraved plates (including frontispiece): occasional spotting - a very nice copy. Originally published in 1810. The plates are uncoloured, so they are not listed.