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2002 Steps to Water: The Ancient Stepwells of India
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition, first impression of this work. A beautifully illustrated volume concerning the stepwells of India, integral part of Western Indian communities for drinking, washing, bathing, and sacred rituals from the fifth to the nineteenth century. Tracing their history from their Hindu origins to their decline under British occupation, as well as reflecting on their current use, preservation, and place in Indian communities.
Richly illustrated in text with numerous striking colourful and black and white photographs and drawings. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.
By Morna Livingston, documentary photographer specialising in architecture and cultural landscapes.
Condition
In the original publisher's binding over colourful pictorial boards featuring a photograph of a stepwell. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With illustrations in text both in colour and in black and white.
Fine
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