HISTORY OF INDIA (NINE VOLUMES) by Jackson, A.V. Williams (Editor) - 1906

London: The Grolier Society, 1906. BARODA. HARDCOVER. Good Plus. BARODA edition. issued/dated from 1906-1907. Lavishly, half-bound in dark red morocco, over stunning vermilion and gold marbled boards, with matching endpapers. Gorgeous gilt design on each spine, depicting (at top and bottom) the state elephant of the Gaikwar of Baroda, an independent native prince of India, who ruled over 5000 square miles in the Bombay Presidency, and below the title and above the author, a gilt image of his palace with a figure before it.ETEG, others untrimmed.. NOTE: Fraying and rubbing, mostly to tops of spines. Each volume by a different author. Vol I: From The Earliest Times to The Sixth Century, B.C. by Romesh Chunder Dutt.; Vol. II: From The Sixth Century B.C. to The Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander The Great; by Vincent A. Smith; Vols. IIIL Medieval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar The Great, by Stanley Poole-Lane; Vol. IV: From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Mogul Empire, by Stanley Lane-Poole Vol. V: The Mohammedan Period as Described by its own Historians, by Sir Henry Miers Elliot;; Vols. VI From the First European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company, by Sir William Wilson Hunter; Vol. VII: The European Struggle for Indian Supremacy in the Seventeenth Century (also) by by Sir William Wilson Hunter; Volume VIII: From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time, by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall; Volume IX: Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers, Classic, Oriental and Occidental, by (The Editor) A.V. Williams Jackson. Where two consecutive volumes are written by the same author (eg. Stanley Lane-Poole, and Sir William Wilson Hunter).