The Coming of Photography in India, British Library, 2008, 1st Ed., Fine w/DJ

Pinney, Christopher. The Coming of Photography in India (London: The British Library, 2008).

English, First Edition, a Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, HC, 8vo, 10" x 7," 166 pp., including illustrations and Index.

ISBN: 9780712349727

First Edition. Fine black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Covers have a small bump to tip of fore-edge on front, else pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Fine maroon and black paper dust jacket with white and orange lettering on black spine. Dust jacket pristine and intact. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages pristine and intact. Replete with illustrations in black-and-white and color. A fascinating scholarly monograph about the early years of photography in India from about the 1850s to the latter part of the nineteenth century. Part of the Panizzi Lectures 2006.