"Curry & Rice" On Forty Plates; Or the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India.

[BRITISH INDIA - SATIRE] ATKINSON, GEORGE FRANCKLIN.

Published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen. (1860)., London., 1860

About this Item

Additional tinted lithographed title + 39 tinted lithographs each with (2) pp of descriptive text, contemporary half green morocco, elaborately gilt decorated spine with raised bands, red gilt-lettered title label, pebbled green cloth boards, 28.5 x 20.3 cms, marbled fore edges and endpapers, the binding a little scuffed and worn, the prelims rather browned, the first three leaves loose at the lower hinge, scant spotting and to the margins of the plates, occasional pencilled marginalia, but a very good complete copy in a handsome binding. George Francklin Atkinson (1822?1859) was a captain in the Bengal Engineers and a skilled artist. He drew directly from his personal experiences in India and here he intended to offer a humorous, satirical look at the lives of British colonials in India (especially in the wake of the Sepoy Rebellion), set in the fictional village of "Kabob" . The author's dedication is to the Victorian novelist and man of letters William Thackeray (himself born in India) and begs him to "accept this salute of my little craft as a trifling token of congeniality, admiration, and esteem".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "Curry & Rice" On Forty Plates; Or the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India.
• Publisher: Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen. (1860)., London.
• Publication Date: 1860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • India - British India