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GUJERAT - RAJKOT BOOTH (Miss) The Memorial Institute, 1893. Arranged and Photographs taken by Miss Booth, FIRST EDITION, [no place or publisher, 1893] image 1
GUJERAT - RAJKOT BOOTH (Miss) The Memorial Institute, 1893. Arranged and Photographs taken by Miss Booth, FIRST EDITION, [no place or publisher, 1893] image 2
GUJERAT - RAJKOT BOOTH (Miss) The Memorial Institute, 1893. Arranged and Photographs taken by Miss Booth, FIRST EDITION, [no place or publisher, 1893] image 3
From the Collection of Brij and Kanishka Sharma
Lot 94

GUJERAT - RAJKOT
BOOTH (Miss) The Memorial Institute, 1893. Arranged and Photographs taken by Miss Booth, FIRST EDITION, [no place or publisher, 1893]

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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GUJERAT - RAJKOT

BOOTH (Miss) The Memorial Institute, 1893. Arranged and Photographs taken by Miss Booth, FIRST EDITION, introduction by F.C.O. Beaman, title within decorative border, 50 albumen prints (13 depicting the building and gardens; 37 portraits of all the Kathiawar chiefs and princes, and Colonial administrators, mostly painted by Frank Brooks), one lithographed plan, the photographs mounted on per page (recto only) on thick card, light spotting to a few mounts, a few with one corner chipped, tissue guards (a few missing), publisher's morocco by Marion & Co., very worn, upper cover detached, folio (435 x 355mm.), [no place or publisher, 1893]

Footnotes

Lavish record of the Memorial Insitute at Rajkot, Gujerat, published to commemorate its opening in 1893. Designed and built by Robert Bell Booth, the Chief Engineer of a British agency, it included a Museum, Durbar Hall, Library and gardens. Presumably the Miss Booth who took the fine photographs in this work, a rare example of a nineteenth century female photographer in India, was Robert's daughter. The portraits of the chiefs and princes of Kathiawatha are mostly by Frank Brooks (1854-1937).

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