'Golden Tips A Description of Ceylon And Its Great TeaIndustry
author: Henry W. Cave
publisher: Sampson low Marston and Co Ltd Fleet Street
1st edition 1900
xii, 474 & [1, ad] pages; Publisher's cream cloth,blocked and stamped in gilt in an elaborate all-over pattern of leaves, darkgreen endpapers, all edges gilt. A wonderful copy of the first edition of ahandsome book -- of interest both for its subject: tea and its plantations, andthe setting: Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. A particularly well-preservedcopy, with an inscription in ink Mrs Gill 9 Hope Park Ter, Edinburgh 1903.Small black mark on spine, some bumping and rubbing to edges, slight tear infoldout map and end pages
Written in 1900 this book is a descriptive exercise tointroduce the reader to Ceylon. All of Ceylon is described and the text is accompaniedwith 214 illustr5ations. Special mention is given to the tea industry inCeylon. About the Author: - Henry W Cave was a British writer, journalist and aphotographer. He was born on 1854. He was awarded by different awards for hisliterary. Henry William Cave came out to Ceylon from England in 1872 assecretary to the Anglican Archbishop of Colombo, Reginald Coppleston. With somehelp from his first employer, the author founded H. W. Cave & Co. inColumbo in 1876, when he was 22 years old. Initially, Cave's business engagedin bookselling, particularly supplying books to the tea planters in Ceylon.Henry Cave became a sought after commercial photographer, and then a publisher,and set up one of the most modern printing presses in the subcontinent. He alsowrote a number of books about Ceylon (see the interesting ad at the rear ofthis volume for details of four titles -- there were more, eventually). Hisfirm diversified into musical instruments, sporting goods -- includingrickshaws, billiard-tables and bicycles. Eventually, Cave had a motordepartment, and probably offered motorcycles, as well. The economic impetus forall this development derived from the vast tea business, so well described inthis lovely volume.
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