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Bayley, Emily Lady Clive, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, and M M Kaye (ed) The Golden Calm - An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi.
Webb & Bower 1980 0906671191 / 9780906671191 First Edition Hardback with dust wrapper Near Fine Near Fine Exquisitely illustrated in colour with over 100 facsimile pages of 'The Delhi Book.
Previous owner's name on endpaper. Wrapper shows signs of wear. 217pp plus index. Red simulated leather boards with gilt decoration on the front panel. The reminiscences of Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, as a young lady growing to maturity amid the flamboyant finery of the dying Moghul Empire. The addition of over 110 facsimile pages of the Delhi Book compiled by her father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, complete with reproductions of commissioned illustrations from some of the finest of the Delhi artists makes this a sumptuous book indeed. One beautiful 6-page fold-out illustrates His Majesty the King of Delhi proceeding in full State to the Ed-Gah or place of sacrifice to celebrate the Festival of the Eed ool Koorban or the Chief Sacrificial Festival. 659001
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Bayley, Emily Lady Clive, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, and M M Kaye (ed) The Golden Calm - An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi.
Webb & Bower 1980 0906671191 / 9780906671191 First Edition Hardback with dust wrapper Near Fine Very Good. Exquisitely illustrated in colour with over 100 facsimile pages of 'The Delhi Book.
Wrapper (price clipped) shows signs of wear. 217pp plus index. Red simulated leather boards with gilt decoration on the front panel. The reminiscences of Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, as a young lady growing to maturity amid the flamboyant finery of the dying Moghul Empire. The addition of over 110 facsimile pages of the Delhi Book compiled by her father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, complete with reproductions of commissioned illustrations from some of the finest of the Delhi artists makes this a sumptuous book indeed. One beautiful 6-page fold-out illustrates His Majesty the King of Delhi proceeding in full State to the Ed-Gah or place of sacrifice to celebrate the Festival of the Eed ool Koorban or the Chief Sacrificial Festival. 112106
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