India

2nd edition, 2nd printing (with additional illustrations). xii, 220pp, with colour plate frontispiece and 31 further colour plates, all by Mortimer Menpes. Map. In blue cloth-covered boards with embossed decorations, top edge sprayed blue, gilt titles on spine. Girls Public Day School Trust emblem gilded onto rear board. 8vo. Boards and mildly rubbed and rounded at corners, more heavily rubbed at the ends of a sunned spine. Prize presentation plate, dated 1935 on front pastedown. Some faint, occasional spotting on prelims else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Flora Annie Steel’s engaging account of India, with an additional chapter bringing the work up to date for publication in 1929. A hard to find title.