G'day folks, I have no connection with the Pagoda Press. Begin forwarded message: From: Hugh Rayner <hugh.rayner@virgin.net> Date: 20 March 2008 4:29:28 AM To: PEOPLE OF INDIA MAILING LIST 1 Subject: A New Pagoda Tree Press book published : 'PEOPLE OF INDIA' Pagoda Tree Press is pleased to announce the publication of a major new book. THE PEOPLE OF INDIA A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, Compiled and Edited by J. Forbes Watson & J. W. Kaye. This important work; originally commissioned by the Government of India, under the auspices of the Viceroy, Lord Canning, is one of the great photographic books of the Nineteenth Century. It was the first comprehensive pictorial and sociological study of India’s native population and was originally published in 1868, in 8 folio volumes. Lavishly illustrated, with 468 individually mounted albumen print photographs taken by many of the most talented photographers, professional and amateur, active in India at that time; it provided a stunning visual record of the multiplicity of Castes,Tribes and Trades that made up the diverse population of the sub-continent in the mid 19th century. Pagoda Tree Press have now produced a compact new edition, taken directly from a fine copy of the original work, comprising the entire text and all the 468 photographic illustrations of the original; re- typeset into a 2 volume set; ideal as a practicable reference copy of an otherwise almost unobtainable work. ISBN: 978-1904289-44-9 2 Volume A5 format, in soft covers. 478 & 508 pages, with 468 b/w illustrations. UK Price £65.00 (sixty five pounds sterling). Postage is additional, at cost * *Current Postage rates, are as follows: UK Postage: £3.85p Europe airmail postage : £8.60 Worldwide airmail postage: £16.66 Worldwide surface mail postage: £8.58 It is available directly from Pagoda Tree Press. To order your copy, please fill out the attached pdf order form and send it, together with payment, or credit card details, to: Pagoda Tree Press, 4 Malvern Buildings, Fairfield Park, Bath BA1 6JX. England Or alternatively, you can order by phone, fax or email, giving your credit/debit card details. Tel/Fax: 0044 1225 463552. Email: hughrayner@pagodatreepress.com IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are within range of London, then you can save the postage, and collect a copy in person, at the forthcoming Travel & Exploration Book fair, where I will be exhibiting a wide range of both Pagoda Tree Press books and Antiquarian Books, Maps and Photographs of India. I will also have copies available on my stand at the next London Photograph Fair; to be held held at the Bonnington Hotel, Southampton Row, London, on May 11th. 10am - 4 pm. With Best Wishes, Hugh Rayner THE TRAVEL & EXPLORATION BOOK FAIR Sunday April 6th 2008 To be held at: The Royal Geographical Society Kensington Gore London SW7 Open 11am to 5 pm. Admission: £2.00 (If you intend to come; please let me know in advance, and I can send you a complimentary ticket) Organized by The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association. ******************************************************** Hugh Ashley Rayner Pagoda Tree Press Publisher, Printer & Retail Distributor of Books on India, The Himalayas & Tibet. UK Distributors for CBC Publishing, Harare, Zimbabwe. 4 Malvern Buildings Fairfield Park Bath BA1 6JX England Tel/Fax: 0044 1225 463552 http://www.pagodatreepress.com ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.