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Sri Lanka
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| Early Prints of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1800-1900
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OUT OF PRINT
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Fully illustrated in colour and accompagnied by original texts with biographical information, bibliographical details, comments and notes.
by Rajpal Kumar DE SILVA
London, 1985 |
This book is the first comprehensive compilation of plates and prints published on Sri Lanka for the period 1800-1900. These plates, accompanied by a text, originally appeared in folio sized travelogues.
In addition to reproducing all 156 plates in colour together with their original texts, the author has provided a biographical not on each artist; a biographical page enabling easy identification of loose plates (as they most often appear today); comments on the plates; and lively explanatory notes on the texts, covering a variety of topics which embrace not only the topography but also the customs and habits if Sri Lankan society, both past and present. As a reference work on prints of the particular period, it is complete.
The plates illustrated here provide an invaluable topographical record of the island during this era. There are only infrequently available for sale, and then, often, not at readily affordable prices. In bringing together in a single volume these rare antiquarian prints, the author has given readers an opportunity of acquainting themselves full with "Early Prints of Ceylon". |
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