"Curry & Rice" or the “Ingredients of Social Life at Our Station in India” by George Franklin Atkinson, Fifth Edition, with colour illustrations for the first time, from the original sketches by the author, London: Thacker & Co. / Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co., 40 plates complete with tissue guards accompanied by 2-page description for each original ornate blind stamped and gilt-embossed binding in mustard-coloured cloth after a design by Sir M. Digby Wyatt [1820-1877].

The author-illustrator was a captain in the Bengal Engineers and also published an account of his activities during the Indian Mutiny, as well as a volume of sketches of travel in northern Europe. The satirical plates, each with an accompanying two-page text, depict life at a British colonial station in India, with heavy emphasis on social and sporting activities, with several images of pompous dignitaries and of native life. The sporting plates include horse-racing, tiger-shooting, and pig-sticking.