WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM

PUBLISHER NAME–PELHEM RICHARDSON LONDON

This handsome two-volume set is bound in the original leather, featuring a decoratively tooled spine and all edges marbled. The set includes a total of 50 lithograph plates, including a frontispiece in each volume, with 19 hand-colored plates, showcasing exceptional detail and period coloring. While some pages show foxing at the edges, this does not affect the text or illustrations. Please note: the folding panoramic map of the Himalayan Mountains is not present.

Despite the missing map, this remains a valuable and visually rich set, notable for its finely produced plates and attractive original binding—an excellent example of 19th-century travel or natural history publishing.

Parkes (née Frances Susanna Archer, 1794-1875) arrived in India in 1822, as the wife of Charles Crawford Parkes, a civil servant in the East India Company. Stationed at Allahabad, she travelled extensively, often on her own, visiting Agra, Fatehgarh, Cawnpore, Meerut, Delhi, and Landor in the Himalayas. As a woman she was able to enter the Zenana, witnessing marriage and religious ceremonies not reported on by male writers. Unlike most of her English female contemporaries in India, she immersed herself in Indian culture, making this one of the most readable travel memoirs of the period.

YEAR- 1850

SIZE- 10 x 7 in.

 EXPORTABLE- No

 CODE NO- BK13