GEORGE FRANKLIN ATKINSON

"Curry & Rice" or the Ingredients of Social Life at Our Station in India, by George Franklin Atkinson, Fifth Edition, with colour illustrations for the first time, from the original sketches by the author, London: Thacker & Co. / Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co., 40 plates complete with tissue guards accompanied by 2-page description for each original ornate blind stamped and gilt-embossed binding in mustard-coloured cloth after a design by Sir M. Digby Wyatt [1820-1877]. The author-illustrator was a captain in the Bengal Engineers and also published an account of his activities during the Indian Mutiny, as well as a volume of sketches of travel in northern Europe. The satirical plates, each with an accompanying two-page text, depict life at a British colonial station in India, with heavy emphasis on social and sporting activities, with several images of pompous dignitaries and of native life. The sporting plates include horse-racing, tiger-shooting, and pig-sticking.
29 x 21 cms

Ten tinted lithographs from the 1860 edition of "Curry and Rice" or the "Ingredients of Our Social Life in India", on forty plates, published in London. The titles: Our cloth Merchants, Our Bedroom, Our Coffee Shop, Our Joint Magistrate, Our Magistrate's Wife, Our Judge's Wife, Our Judge, Our Colonel, Our Traveller's Bungalow, Our Burra Khana. While the 1911 edition reproduced the actual water colors by Atkinson, the 1860 edition from which the above plates come, had tinted lithographs drawn by an artist based on the water colors. All prints are mounted.
25 x 20 cm