Henry Davidson Love
Indian Records Series: Vestiges of Old Madras 1640-1800
Publisher : John Murray
London, 1913.
Documentation of the history of the city from the 1640 founding of Fort St. George till 1800.
Love was commissioned by the Government of Madras in the early 1900s to supplement “known facts by the collation of the topographical references which are scattered over the ancient records.” He discovered a distinct lack of maps of old Madras in the Madras Records Office and in London. Instead, he discovered “a plethora of valuable and heretofore unpublished data, demonstrating the origin of Madras institutions and the social life of the city’s people” in the Fort St. George archives. He was able to persuade the Governments of Madras and India to publish a 1640-1800 history of Madras in one or more volumes of the India Records Series using samples of this material. When the work was finished, it was published in three volumes of around 600 pages each in 1913, with a fourth volume including an astoundingly extensive index.
Henry Davidson Love
First Edition with Index. ( 23 x 17cm) 4 folding maps contained in rear pockets, portraits, folding facsimile maps and plans and letters, volume I folding map frontispiece with repaired folds.
Binding: Top edges gilt, original decorative cloth gilt
Condition: Light wear to front cover. Darkened spine with rubbed extremeties. A good copy
Exportable: No
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