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Publicado por Rowe & Co. Ltd. nd, Rangoon
Librería: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original Paper Wraps. Condición: Good + overall. A great cover image lacking 2 of the 24 tipped in printed photographic plates of vernacular images and simple captions. Images include a fishing scene, bathing, planting rice, filling chatties, praying at a temple. Original wraps, oblong 4to, unpaginated, cord tied, covers ruffled at edges, damp affected back cover leaving a tide mark, front slt. dusty. Lacks 2 plates. A few printed photos with F.M. Muriel' printed signature. Lovely b&w images, some slt unglued or creased at corners. NLA Bib id: 6152222. Charles Ernest Muriel was appointed by the Secretary of State for India to be an Assistant Conservator of Forests in Burma, who arrived in Rangoon December 1886 [Burma Gazette 7 January 1887]. The author is presumably his wife, F.M. Muriel.
Publicado por Rowe & Co. [ca. 1900], Rangoon, 1900
Librería: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
First edition. Oblong quarto (13 x 10 1/4 inches). Brown paper and cover. Title page plus 24 leaves each bearing a tipped-in photographic illustration of quotidian life in what is now Myanmar. Printed cations beneath each image. Images are generally 8 x 6 inches. Publisher's string-tied brown wrappers with lettering and a peacock image in red and gold. Slight old crease to front corner of front wrapper but a very handsome and complete copy.Frances Matilda Muriel, "wife of Charles Ernest Muriel (d. 5 Oct 1949) of the Forest Service, India and Burma. The couple retired to Bordighera, Italy, where they lived at the Hotel Londra for several years, but returned to England (via France, Spain and Portugal) in 1942. Final years spent in Bournemouth, where they are buried. A gifted amateur photographer and painter. A number of her photographs were also hand-tinted. Photogravure of the ?Kyaungdwyn Pagodahm, Upper Burmah? by F.M. Muriel, ?a lady correspondent in Burma?, used as the illustration to the April 1899 issue of The Journal of the Photographic Society of India (vol. XII, no. 4), and a number of her photographs won prizes at exhibitions in India. A series of her views of Burma was published by Rowe and Co., Rangoon, in the early 1900s. Her paintings decorated the cabin of the Princess of Wales during her trip on the Irrawaddy; these paintings were later displayed at the Wembley Exhibition of 1924." (J. Falconer). Almosr surely self-published.
Publicado por Rangoon, Rowe & Co., 1900
Librería: McManmon, B.D. ABA, ILAB, Preston, LANCS, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oblong quarto in the original string-tied brown decorative wrappers. The edges of this fragile item are a little frayed but it is very good copy with attractive illustrations. - 24 - as called for.