Buy this book on-line A. V. Williams Jackson (Editor) et al : History of India (Nine Volumes)The Grolier Society, London, England, 1906
Nine volumes, complete. Original publisher's brown 3/4 leather binding with blue and beige marbled boards. Gilt lettering and gilt decorations of elephants and a Hindu temple on spine. Top edge gilt. Blue and beige marbled endpapers. 6 3/4" x 9 1/2." All pages of each volume, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations in each volume, complete. Some of the fronispieces are in color. List of Illustrations in front of each volume. Index in back of each volume. Copyright page identifies this as the "Baroda Edition." Printed by the Edinboro Press. Pages are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Covers are very clean and intact but have some rubbing to spine and slight wear to extremities. Very Good copies. A comprehensive history of India replete with accompanying illustrations. The following are the page count, titles, and authors of each volume: Vol. I, 341 pages: "From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B. C." by Romesh Chunder Dutt; Vol. II, 420 pages: "From the Sixth Century B. C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great" by Vincent A. Smith; Vol. III, 281 pages: "Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great" by Stanley Lane-Poole; Vol. IV, 293 pages: "Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great" by Lane-Poole; Vol. V, 369 pages: "The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians" by Henry Miers Elliot; Vol. VI, 325 pages: "From the first European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company" by William Wilson Hunter; Vol. VII, 310 pages: "From the first European Settlements to the Founding of the English India Company [Part Two]" by Hunter; Vol. VIII, 510 pages: "From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time" by Alfred Comyn Lyall; Vol. IX, 344 pages: "Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers: Classic, Oriental, and Occidental" by A. V. Williams Jackson. Excerpt from the editor's Introduction: "The aim of this series of volumes is to present a continuous narrative of the history of India from the dim ages of the past down to the present time [of the British Raj], combining into an organic whole a succession of standard works by recognized authorities, each a master of the special period with which he deals ....". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of A. V. Williams Jackson (Editor) et al : History of India (Nine Volumes). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, first editions, livres anciens, antiquarian books and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |