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"Curry & Rice" on Forty Plates; or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India. [ATKINSON, Captain George Francklin.] London: Printed & Published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, [1858]. Large 4to, original embossed terra-cotta cloth, backstrip & front cover elaborately lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt, gilt edges [82] pp. + 40 tinted lithographic plates, including extra pictorial title-page, each with guard sheet. A few plates with one margin trimmed and marginal soiling and creasing, suggesting removal and reinsertion; intermittent foxing; overall a good, sound copy of a book that is hard to find in its celebrated ornate original binding. First Edition, identifiable by the “J.B. Day” on the title-page and at the foot of the... $850.00