Among the innumerable illustrated travelogues about India directed to a primarily British audience in the
18th and 19th centuries, „Sketches of Native Life in India,“ a book that was published in London in 1848,
has gained a special reputation for its exceptional visual impressiveness and its idiosyncratic qualities.
Today, even single illustrated sheets from this work are almost impossible to retrieve from specialized
booksellers and antiquarians, although it was able to summon up as many as 350 subscribers (as can be
seen in a list the editor enclosed as an appendix) and found distributors in London and Edinburgh…
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John Corbet Anderson and C.R. Francis:”Sketches Of Native Life In India” (1848)
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