A. MacRae & Co., Limited: Onlooker Annual 1947. , Bombay: Roy H. Rutherford, 1947.

Edited and published by Roy H. Rutherford for A. MacRae & Co., Limited. 88 pp, in thin card covers. 35 x 26 cm. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. A really wonderful evocation of the end of the Raj. Articles include: H. Barrowcliff Ellis 'The History of Hunting in India', Khana Badosh 'Bloodstock Breeding', Khwaja Ahmad Abbas 'Mirror of Indian Life - The Cinema', "Mew" 'Government House', R.V. Leyden 'Some Indian Artists of Today', Wahida Aziz 'Oriental Embroidery', "Jagg" 'Red-Letter Days with Tent Clubs', B.S. Mardhekar 'This is All-India Radio', E.C.B. Thornton 'Yachting in Bombay', and H.D. Simmons 'The British Motor Industry Today'. Full-page coloured advertisements include Firestone Tyres, Tea ("Inserted by the Indian Tea Market Expansion Board"), Asbestos Cement, Lipton's Tea, Three Castles Cigarettes, Air-India, Cream Cracker Biscuits, Le Bryan fridges, Courtauld's Rayon, Rolls-Royce and Packard, Goya Perfumes, Humber-Hillman-Sunbeam-Talbot cars, Brook Bond Tea, B.O.A.C., Remington Typewriters, Brown & Poulson Cornflour, Jensen & Nicholson Paints, Tata Iron & Steel, Associated Hotels of India Ltd, Phipson's Wines & Spirits, and Carlton's Cigaretts. The staples are rusted, and the top of the front cover is frayed, but still a fascinating annual. (Book ref. 13440)  £55.00

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