Srímad-Victoria-Máhátmyam, The Greatness of the Empress Victoria: a Sanskrit poem, set to music, with an English translation and sixty-three illustrations, descriptive of sixty years of Her Majesty’s Sovereignty

Binding. Tagore (Rajá Sir Sourindro Mohun)  Portrait frontispiece, plates, musical notation set within ornamental borders of various colours, title printed in red and black Cassell and Company, Limited,   [1898] First Edition   4to Contemporary full green morocco, sides with double fillet gilt and beautiful and elaborate overall tooling of flowers and leafy sprays, spine decorated with the same tools and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, turn-ins gilt with fillets, roll and flowers, orange silk end-papers, by Zaehnsdorf Very slight wear to extremities, spine and edges of upper cover a little sunned losing green tint, but a very nice copy; with the armorial bookplate of Grace Elvina Trillia Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston. Scarce  Library catalogues suggest 1897 or 1898 for the date of publication. 

Price: £3000