TITLE: The Imperial Gazetteer of India
VOLUME: XXVI
PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press
PLACE: Oxford
YEAR: 1931
BINDING: Green cloth binding with gilted text at the spine
NO.OF PAGES: Title page, content list, preface, 66 double-page coloured maps, none printed back-to-back, with a title caption on each map along with general index printed at the end.
SIZE:
Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 15 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm
The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869. The first edition of The Imperial Gazetteer of India was published in nine volumes in 1881. A second edition, augmented to fourteen volumes, was issued in the years 1885-87. After the death of William Wilson Hunter in 1900, Herbert Hope Risley, William Stevenson Meyer, Sir Richard Burn and James Sutherland Cotton compiled the twenty-six volumes Imperial Gazetteer ofIndia. The volume 26 of the present lot is the one published d in 1931.
"New Editions" had four encyclopaedic volumes covering the geography, history, economics, and administration of India, 20 volumes of the alphabetically arranged gazetteer, listing places' names and giving statistics and summary information, and one volume each comprising the index and atlas.
The present volume has Preface to the 1909 edition, Preface to the 1931 edition, table of contents and list of maps categorized under General Maps (29); Provincial Maps (21); Plans of Town (16).
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