WALKER, Edward.

Views in India. Photographed by Edward Walker, late captain 21st R.N.B. Fusiliers. Printed by J. E. Mayall, 91 King's Road, Brighton.

[Circa 1870]. Oblong 4to (300 x 390 mm), pp. [iv], with 19 original photographs on card mounts; light foxing, mainly on the mounts but slightly affecting the images; contemporary (probably original) blind-stamped dark brown morocco, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. The two initial leaves, printed rectos only, comprise a half-title (‘Views in India’) followed by a title (as quoted above) with a list of the photographs:‘1. – Hindoo temple, dedicated to Wittoba, an incarnation of Vishnu, built entirely of stone. The pillars are each cut out of one solid block of stone. 2 and 3. – Belong to the same temple. N.B. – These three temples form three sides of a square; the car stands in the centre, on a platform. 4. – The stone car Juggernauth in the courtyard. 5. – Building at Biganagur, called the “Elephant’s Stables”. 6. – Entrance to Hindoo temple. 7 and 8. – Ditto. 9. Stone trough, made from one piece, 42 ft. in length, weight about 16½ tons. 10. – Entrance to Hindoo temple. 11. – Stone figure of Hindoo god. 12. – Mussulman tombs at Golcondah, Hyderabad, Deccan. 13. – Ditto, with the fort of Golcondah in the distance. 14, 15 and 16. – Tombs at Golcondah. 17. – Regimental bazaar at Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, Deccan. 18. – Entrance to Hindoo temple, in the Ulsoor bazaar, Bangalore, Madras. 19. – Mussulman building at Biganagur’.No date of printing appears in the book, but Walker’s regiment, the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers, named on the title-page, became the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1877, so it must have produced before then. J. E. Mayall (1813–1901), who produced this book for him, was a prolific and popular photographer, who had worked in America in the early 1840s before returning to England to establish a studio in London. In 1863 he set up another studio in Brighton, where he also became much involved in local politics and was mayor in 1877–78 (see Larry Schaaf’s article in Oxford DNB).Apparently unrecorded: not found in BLIC, COPAC or OCLC. There is no mention of Walker in G. Thomas, History of photography in India (1981).

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