First edition. 4vols. Extensively illustrated, each volume has cartographic end papers and numbered illustrations ie Vol.1-4, 21, 24, 24, 23. Many of these are folding maps. Original green cloth, a very good set, vol 2 a little shaken but nevertheless sound. xx, 400, [16 index]; xxviii, 478; xii, 535; xviii, 493pp. Dehra Dun, Office of the Northern Circle, 1945.
Presentation copies, Phillimore has inscribed volumes 1 (“To my fellow members of the United Service Club”) and Vol 3. (“With the Author’s Compliments”). Volume 2 has the R.U.S.I. label noted in ms. “Presented by Colonel Phillimore*.*”
This famous work of scholarship is an invaluable source for the cartographic history of India. In particular it has biographies of all the principal surveyors, chapters on instrumentation etc.