AN INSCRIBED COPY OF DALRYMPLE’S WHITE MUGHALS, WHICH WON THE WOOLFSON PRIZE FOR HISTORY AND THE SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

Octavo (232 x 151mm), pp. xliii, [1 (blank)], 580, [16 (blank)]. 8 colour-printed plates with illustrations recto-and-verso and 4 monochrome plates with illustrations recto-and-verso. Illustrations and 2 full-page maps in the text. (A few small, marginal marks, some traces of pencilled doodles on the first few ll.) Original black boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, colour-printed pictorial endpapers, dustwrapper, price-clipped. (Minimally rubbed at extremities, traces of removed labels on upper pastedown and dustwrapper, dustwrapper slightly faded and creased at edges.) A very good copy.

Provenance: Brigit (‘Biddy’) Ursula Hope Barlow and Erasmus Darwin Barlow, 2 October 2002 (1916-2004 and 1915-2005, autograph presentation inscription on title ‘Biddy & Erasmus With best wishes Willie Dalrymple 2nd October 2002’, apparently written in two campaigns, with the words ‘& Erasmus’ and ‘With best wishes’ inserted into the inscription ‘Biddy Willie Dalrymple 2nd October 2002’; their library at Digswell Manor, Ashwell, Hertfordshire) – Wendy Ford, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, 14 May 2006 (printed booklabel on half-title, with manuscript note ‘Bought house sale 14.05.06. Ashwell Digswell Manor’ on ‘Post-It’ on half-title) – G. David, Cambridge (bookseller’s ticket on upper pastedown).