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001 $ 19/3329
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20230815103050.9
035 # # $z 3541
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Birdwood, George Christopher Molesworth
245 1 0 $a Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878. Handbook to the British Indian Section.
250 # # $a Second edition.
260 # # $a London $b Offices of the Royal Commission $c [1878]
300 # # $a [2], vii, [1], 162 pages, frontis. and i-v leaves of plates : $b illus. ; $c 215 mm.
500 # # $a The frontispiece is a view of the Indian Court, Paris Exhibition, 1878 (architect Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke).

Found folded in the back of the catalogue is a cutting from the Sunday Times printing a letter from the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Antrim discussing a proposed exhibition, 'Exhibition of Greater India', at the Royal Academy planned to be held early in 1940. The letter has a headline of 'The Indian Art Exhibition. Criticism of the Royal Academy Scheme'. There is no date on the cutting but is probably somtime in 1938 or 1939.
561 # # $a Inscribed in ink at the top of the front flyleaf, 'With Mr [...]hams / Compliments'.
563 # # $a Blue-grey paper binding with brown decoration and letteriing. No spine lettering.
653 # # $a Exposition universelle (1878 : Paris, France). British Indian Section