The textile manufactures and the costumes of the people of India
Subtitle: with plates, exhibiting numerous coloured photographs, etc
By: by J. Forbes Watson
Contributors: Griggs, William, 1832-1911, photographer; Dannenberg, J. C. A., photographer; De Montgomery, R. H., photographer; Johnson, W., photographer; Houghton, Capt., photographer; Simpson, Dr., photographer; Tanner, Lieut., photographer; India Museum; Great Britain. India Office; Shepherd & Robinson
Publisher: Wm. H. Allen & Co. ...
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Textile industry; Textile fabrics; Costume
Notes: Describes a collection of 700 specimens of Indian fabrics, 20 sets of which were assembled by the India Museum, South Kensington, for distribution in England and India.

The plates are numbered I-XI and A, and consist of 9 mounted photographs (albumen prints) with lithographed captions, 1 photolithograph, 1 photochromolithograph, and 1 lithograph.

The photo plates are composite prints of Indians in costume, from photographs by W. Griggs, J.C.A. Dannenberg, R.H. De Montgomery, W. Johnson, Shepherd & Robinson, Capt. Houghton, Dr. Simpson, Lieut. Tanner and others.

Gernsheim, H. Incunabula of British photographic literature, 348