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Henry Hardy Cole, Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir. Prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council from Photographs, Plans and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of India, London: India Museum, W. H. Allen and co., publishers to the India office, 1869

31, [1] p. plates, 44 mounted carbon autotype prints (numbered 1-44), lithographed map and 14 plans; original brown half-leather and orange cloth boards with gold-embossed title and decorative borders, all edges gilt
34 x 26 x 2.5 cm

"This work forms the first in the series of volumes which it is proposed to publish in connexion with the operations of the Archaeological Survey of India. The Illustrations have been produced from the original negatives in the Photographic Department of the India Museum by the 'Autotype' Process in Carbon and are therefore permanent" T.p. verso.

The fine photographs were taken by John Burke (1843-1900), a commercial photographer operating with studios in Murree, India and Peshawar, Afghanistan. He accompanied, alongside two "native surveyors, Thakoor Dass and Habeeb-oo-lah", Cole's expedition to the Kashmir Valley in October 1868 to survey the great pre-Islamic temples scattered through the region. He was in partnership with William Baker from 1871 to 1880 and was an official photographer to the British Army during the Second Afghan War 1879 - 1880. He opened a studio in his hometown of Lahore in 1885 and was in business till 1903.

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