[Fore-edge painting]

[Fore-edge painting]
A History of British India … by Charles Macfarlane
London: George Routledge & Co., 1854. Second edition, 8vo (17.2 x 10.6cm), contemporary maroon morocco, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title-page and plates (collation not established), original watercolour painting of cottages to fore edge of textblock (pencilled note to front free endpaper reading ‘fore edge - Wiltshire village’)
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA