The History of India. Edited by A. V. Williams Jackson. [Nine Volumes by Various Authors].

"Edition de Luxe Limited to One Thousand Copies for England and America. 1906. Nine Volumes; 7 ¼ in. x 10 1/8 in. x 1½ in. (thick); each with a colored frontispiece, with tissue guards; each volume averages 300 or more pages, with prefaces by the editor (Jackson), list of illustrations, indexes. Illustrations include reproductions of black & white, historical photographs, (many are architectural, showing various sites, as well as, scenery, dress, etc.), and numerous various types of in-text illustrations, some of which are based on photographs. Many pages are unopened. Bound with maroon morocco leather spines, sides and corner-pieces, with five raised bands on the spines, and gilt titling, and gilt arabesque designs in compartments, and marbled paper over boards, top-edges gilt, with marbled endpapers; with the binder's stamp on the back of the endpapers: Bennett, N.Y. The spines show some degrees of age mottling to the leather surface, which varies from volume to volume, and an abrasion to one compartment of volume nine, light wear to some cover corners. Contents: Volume 1: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B.C., by Romesh Chunder Dutt; 2: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great, by Vincent A. Smith; 3: Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great, by Stanley Lane-Poole; 4: From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Mogul Empire, by Stanley Lane-Poole; 5: The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians, by Sir Henry Miers Elliot; 6: From the first European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company, by Sir William Wilson Hunter; 7: The European Struggle for Indian Supremacy in the Seventeenth Century, by Sir William Wilson Hunter; 8: From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time, by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall; 9: Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Occidental, by A. V. Williams Jackson. 32 lbs. Postage is extra on this item.