Crooke William Ed Notes (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. LIV, 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. An enlarged edition of "Materials for a rural and agricultural glossary of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh" (1879). ["William Crooke of the Indian Civil Service is remembered as a pioneering colonial ethnographer and historian. His Glossary will be an invaluable work of reference to every scholar of South Asian history, sociology, social and economic organization, village technology, peasant studies, and Third World societies".…

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to front board, blind stamp decoration to rear board, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxxviii + 353pp + 35pp Hakluyt list to rear, VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards & extrems, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, light tanning to prelims & terminals).…

THIS VOL ONLY, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, 371pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, light tanning to prelims & terminals). …