Pagoda Tree Press

26/09/2024

Joe Roberts excellent book 'Three-Quarters of a Footprint' is being republished in November, by Eland Books.

23/07/2024

In an increasingly rare book fair appearance, I will be a guest exhibitor at BATH BOOK FAIR, this coming Friday 26th & Saturday 27th July, at The Pavilion, North Parade Road, Bath.
I'll have a wide range of rare books, vintage photographs, antique maps and prints, of India & South Asia, and look forward to seeing you all there!
Full details of the fair, jointly organised by the PBFA & the ABA, together with complimentary admission ticket, are at: https://www.pbfa.org/fairs/bath-book-fair-july-2024

12/12/2023

I've just received a copy of a wonderful new book on the Spiti Valley, by Yannick Laurent, for which I suppled some early photographs, to help illustrate. It's superbly produced in 2 volumes, and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the region. Go and buy one now!

Vajra Books Vajra Academic Series, Vol. 4 ISBN (Vol 1): 978-9937-733-33-5 ISBN (Vol 2): 978-9937-733-32-8 Packaged in a Slipcase

14/10/2023

The Wessex Camera Fair is back at the Cheese and Grain tomorrow starting at 8:30am.
Come and see the South West’s Largest Camera & Photographic Fair. Cameras (Digital, Modern & Collectable) Lenses, Filters, Flashguns, Film, Paper, Books and Old Prints.

Over 30 stands selling everything camera and photographic related only!

Early Bird admission £6 (8:30am), General admission £4 (10am -12pm) reduced admission after 12pm.

Our wonderful café will also be open serving hot & cold drinks, pastries, sausage rolls, soups and salads.

27/05/2019

F.M. Bailey CIE

Biography

21/02/2016

If you would like to order any of the books listed here, then there are two options.
1. Message me via FB. and I can send you a Paypal invoice, and ship the books after payment is received.
2. Visit the Pagoda Tree Press website, which has fuller details of all our publications, and email me an order from there:
http://www.pagodatreepress.com

20/02/2013

EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF LADAKH
Comprising:
From Simla through Ladac & Cashmere
by Captain Robert Melville Clarke
&
Description of a Mystic Play, as Performed in Ladak, Zascar &c.
By Captain H. H. Godwin-Austin
With Photographic Illustrations by Captain Alexander Brodie Melville.
Edited, with a new preface and introduction, by Hugh Rayner F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S.
These two works, republished here for the first time, are amongst the rarest of early photographic records of the Himalayas. They contain, between them, the two earliest known series of photographs of Ladakh, together with some of the earliest photographs of Srinagar and Kashmir.
'From Simla through Ladac & Cashmere' is an album of 35 b/w photographic views taken by Captain Robert Melville Clarke. It was originally published in Calcutta, in 1862, as an extremely limited edition. Clarke was an Indian Army officer, and keen amateur photographer, who was the official photographer on the Hay & Torrens hunting expedition to Ladakh in 1861. (which was notable for how little hunting they actually accomplished! However Lt-Col. Torrens also published a good account of the journey) They set off from Simla, in the summer of 1861, travelling via Narkanda, Kotgarh, and thence through Kulu, over the Rotang Pass to Lahoul, Zanskar, Ladakh and eventually down to the Vale of Kashmir.
'Description of a Mystic Play' was originally published as an article in The Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1865. The text was written by Captain H. H. Godwin-Austen, of the Survey of India, and it was illustrated with 10 mounted albumen prints by Captain Alexander Brodie Melville. They were half-stereo format portraits of the elaborate ritual dance costumes at Hemis Monastery; were taken during the course of Brodie’s work in on the Kashmir Survey in Ladakh, between 1861and 1864. These portraits are all reproduced here in full colour.
Format: A5 soft covers. pp108 with b/w & colour illustrations. ISBN: 978-1904285-68-5
Price: UK £14.00

11/06/2012

John Saché
A Photographer in British India

1864 -1882
By Hugh Rayner

John Edward Saché was one of the more
important and prolific professional
photographers working in mid nineteenth
century India. From the mid 1860’s through
until his death in 1882, he operated a variety
of studios, in towns across northern India,
and in that time, produced well over 1000
fine topographical views, architectural and
portrait studies. This booklet documents
his life and work; illustrated with a range of
newly discovered portraits of him, pictures
of his studios, and personal photographs of his wife and family; as well as an extensive catalogue of over 500 of his published topographical photographs.


ISBN: 978-1904289-79-1
1st Edition: publication date: June 2012.
Format: Booklet, card covers, 38 pp in soft covers, with b/w illustrations.

Price: £10.00

Plus postage, at cost: UK 2nd class: £1.10p. EEC: £2.93p
Worldwide airmail: £3.86p

22/11/2011

Views in Kulu & Spiti. Frith’s Photo-Pictures - India Series. Compiled & edited, with an introduction by Hugh Rayner; & additional notes by Clark Worswick.
This book contains the entire Francis Frith & Co. ‘Universal Series’ of photographs of Kulu and Spiti that were made during late 1869 or early 1870. This set of 45 rare images are amongst the earliest bodies of photography produced of this region, and were originally taken to be marketed as individual prints. They have now all been assembled into one comprehensive work for the first time; with the inclusion of 2 additional, and previously unidentified, images from the series, that were not included in the Frith series catalogue, or widely marketed by them. Finely printed in full colour, nearly all the plates are reproduced here to the same size as the original prints (whole-plate or 61/2x81/2 in.).
With an introductory text by Hugh Rayner, and additional notes by Clark Worswick on the previously unidentified photographer employed by Frith & Co. to produce these images. It contains previously almost unseen views of the region, its landscape, architecture and people; and is both an important addition to the early photographic history of the Himalayas, and an invaluable pictorial resource for anyone interested in the early history of the Kulu and Spiti areas.
Format: Landscape A4 pp:64 in soft covers, with b/w & colour illustrations
ISBN: 978-1904289-77-7. Price: £24.00