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Vikram and Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu devilry. Adapted by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton [from the Baitāl-Pachīsī] ... Edited by his wife, Isabel Burton ... With thirty-three illustrations by Ernest Griset

1893 · Tylston & Edwards · 33 pictures

Richard F. Burton's English retelling of the Sanskrit Baitāl-Pachīsī, published in London by Tylston & Edwards in 1893, edited by Isabel Burton for Victorian readers of exotic tales. Ernest Griset's 33 wood-engraved plates and vignettes show turbaned figures fleeing winged demons, skeletons hopping upright, and ascetics amid grinning imps, drawn in loose hatching with open sky and smoke.

British Library · HMNTS 12273.k.1. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain) · More from this library