Every-Day Life in India
New York: American Tract Society, 1881. First Edition. Octavo, 402 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered green cloth covered boards with a black floral design. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Every-Day Life in India is a substantial 19th-century missionary and travel account by Rev. A. D. Rowe, written for American readers and illustrated with engravings made from original photographs. Published by the American Tract Society, the volume presents descriptions of Indian domestic life, customs, occupations, caste, religion, education, village society, and missionary work, combining evangelical purpose with ethnographic and social observation. The illustrations, though not original photographic prints, are based on contemporary photographs and give the book additional historical interest as visual documentation of people, places, and daily scenes in colonial India. A desirable original American edition for collectors of India, missionary history, travel literature, ethnography, and 19th-century illustrated books. Frontispiece detached, rear hinge starting, rubbing and wear, occasional discoloration, else in good + condition. Item #349
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