Condition: Original worn, but highly decorative and gilt embossed binding remains. However, the text pages are very brittle with occasional loss of text and the original fine Woodbury types have also occasionally suffered due to the brittleness of their mounts. Of the 44 Woodbury type portraits – each bearing the credit line of Vincent Brooke Day & Son, London - only 26 are present. These are in various states of damage and repair along margins but the images themselves in most cases remain unscathed. Most portraits relate to Bombay gentry, 8 of them being of Parsis.