1924 A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon

Description

Colour Plates, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The scarce eleventh edition of this traveller's guide to India, Burma and Sri Lanka. This long-running handbook concluded in 1968 with the twenty-first edition, and was enormously popular in its day.

With thirty-four folding colour plates, one further folding colour map in a pocket to the rear of the work, and numerous further illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.

From the famous series of 'Murray's Handbooks for Travellers', a series of travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. According to scholar James Buzard, the Murray style 'exemplified the exhaustive rational planning that was as much an ideal of the emerging tourist industry as it was of British commercial and industrial organization generally'. These works are thus a fascinating insight into both the mentality of those who would have purchased them, and the locations in question.

With advertisements to the front pastedown and endpapers, with ten pages of advertisements to the rear.