Louis Rousselet (1845 - 1929)

INDIA OF RAJAHS By Louis Rousselet; Text on Indian Court Costumes by Philippa Scott, Published 1985 by Franco Maria Ricci, Milan, Printed in Italy, No. 1042 of a limited edition of 5000 copies, 268 pages printed on sky-blue handmade paper, the text consists of extracts taken from Rousselet's 'India and Its Native Princes', published in the 1870s Deluxe cloth binding with a plate pasted on cover, many plates showing Indian textiles, large folding plates of Patna paintings and tipped-in reproductions of sepia photographs of Maharajas and their courtiers, contained in a beautiful box as issued.