8vo. xiv, 310pp, [2]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 43 photographic plates, a sketch map, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and marked, spine sunned. One plate detached. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP:' Offered to / Mr. Thos. Macpherson / by the writer / Gobindpur / Chota Nagpore / 28.6.3'.

The first edition of Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt's (1874-1963) entertaining travelogue describing the manners and customs of the native populace of the Chota Nagpur Division of British India. A second, revised edition appeared in 1910.