[Photobook] 24 Choice Photogravure Views of Bombay [Mumbai]

Bombay: Thacker & Co Ltd, 1914. Stiff Wrappers. Fine-. Scarce album of original photographs of Bombay locales from the dawn of the twentieth century. Oblong crown 8vo (148 x 195mm): [48]pp, with 24 postcard-sized photographs, each titled to lower margin and mounted on heavy brown stock to obverse of each leaf. Publisher's stiff deep beige card covers decorated and lettered in dark brown, string-tied with original cord. Printed in England, with "British Manufacture throughout. E. W. Savory Ltd., Bristol" stamped to back cover. Trivial wear to covers, else a superior copy, the photogravures completely unfaded and virtually pristine. The images include: Richard Temple's Statue and High Court, The Victoria Terminus, General Post Office, B B & C I Railway Offices, Taj Mahal Hotel, Hotel Majestic and Waterloo Mansions, The Cuffe Parade, Malabar Hill from Chowpatty Sands, Queen's Statue and Esplanade Road, Princes and Victoria Docks, Victoria Gardens, The Royal Bombay Yacht Club, Back Bay from Malabar Hill, Crawford Market, Elephanta Caves, and the Sacred Pool of Temple. Thacker and Company Ltd, established in 1878, is one of the oldest listed companies on the Bombay Stock Exchange. It has grown from a trading company to one today with interests in finance, trading, and information technology. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).