India - North-Western Province Set of Agra imprints, 19th century

India - North-Western Province Set of Agra imprints, 19th century 1) Report on Indigenous Education and Vernacular Schools, in Agra, Aligarh, Bareli, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, for 1850-51. By Henry Steward Reid, Visitor General of Schools, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1852-3-4. First editions, 3 works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [4] 220, [2] 122, [2] 176 pp, blind stamp of the Schlagintweit library to title-page; 2) Report on Ajmeer and Mairwara, illustrating the Settlement of the Land Revenue and the Revenue Administration of those Districts, up to ... 1853. By Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Dixon, Commissioner, Ajmeer and Mairwara. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1853. First edition, 4to, later cloth, [2] 199 pp., uniform moderate browning, colour pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in Q4, worming to endpapers now affecting text-block; 3) Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, according to the System pursued in the North Western Provinces of the Presidency of Bengal. Compiled and published under the Orders of the Hon'ble the Lieutenant Governor, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1847. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half leather (worn), [2] iii 244 pp., 3 hand-coloured lithographic plans, 4 lithographic genealogical tables, 4 letterpress tables, all folding, shelfmark label of Pandut Sundar Lal, High Court, Allahabad to front pastedown, governmental ink-stamp to title-page and final page, a few old repairs to plates, one genealogical table with 10cm closed tear, moderate browning, a few small worm-tracks towards rear, rear inner hinge partly cracked; 4) Selections from the Records of Government, North Western Provinces [volume 1]. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1855. Second edition, 8vo, later cloth, vii 1-76 107-222 [1] pp., hand-coloured double-page lithographic plate ('Half elevation, half section and plan of Burdashtkhaneh in the Cawnpoor District'), 3 further lithographic plates (collation not established), cloth mottled, title-page browned and tipped in, variable damp-staining to pp. 107-130; 5) The New Code of Civil Procedure. Act No. 10 of 1877. Agra: Elahi Press, c.1877. 8vo, recent red cloth, text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, in 8 parts (separately paginated), browned throughout, contents leaf and title-page chipped, final leaf tape-repaired in gutter, part 2 possibly lacking section-title (but collation not established as no other copy traced) Qty: (5) Note: Among the invaluable information provided by Henry Steward Reid's educational reports are lists of the textbooks printed each year by the government of the North-West Province, including details of their authors, content and print runs. Library Hub cites three locations only: LSE (1852-3), Oxford (1852), and SOAS (year not stated). Library cataloguing notes a map for Dixon's work, but none is present in the copy held by the University of Oxford and we have not been able to inspect another copy; it is possible that the map is from C. G. Dixon's Sketch of Mairwara (1850), with which the British Library (India Office Records) copy is bound, and that the description for this particular copy has been generally applied. One institutional copy traced for the Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, at the British Library, catalogued as having nine plates (it is unclear whether these include the folding tables).