pp. [4], 50 fine chromo-lithographed plates, all but one in colour, 2 laid down, plate 40 supplied in facsimile, housed in original portfolio decorated and lettered in gilt with later cloth ties. Large folio. (Issued by the Government of India; Photo-Chromo-Lithographed by W. Griggs and Sons, Chromo-Lithographers to the King, 1906).

The definitive pioneering documentation of Sind tilework. Henry Cousens, Superintendent of the Archaological Survey of India, also wrote the major study ‘The Antiquities of Sind’ (1929). The tiles illustrated are from the Great Mosque at Thatta, now a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Talpur Tombs in Hyderabad, and Abul Baki Purani’s mosque in Sukkur.