A volume of hand-coloured lithographs of sketches made in India by Emily Eden, a correspondent of Queen Victoria and the sister of Lord Auckland.

Eden and her sister, Fanny, accompanied her brother to India in 1836 after he was appointed Governor-General. The trio travelled across northern India together during which time Eden sketched the people and places they visited. Among her most famous portraits are those of the Sikh rulers of the Punjab. She met Maharajah Ranjit Singh in November 1838 and, as well as sketching his portrait, copied a portrait of Queen Victoria in her coronation robes to present as a gift to the Sikh ruler.

She published these portraits with text descriptions privately in 1844 using J. Dickinson & Son, print makers to the Duchess of Kent. The cover is gilt stamped ‘Hon. E. Eden's India’ with an image of a snake coiled around an egg.

The plates include:
Frontispiece: The son of the Nawab of Banda
1. Dost Muhammad Khan, the ruler of Afghanistan, with one of his sons and a cousin
2. Maharajah Sher Singh, then ruler of the Punjab
3. A Hindu Fakir
4. A Head Servant of Government House, Calcutta
5. Akalis, or Sikh warriors
6. The Rajah of Patiala on his state elephant
7.  Rajah Hira Singh
8. Maharajah Hindu Rao, a Mahratha Prince
9. One of the guards of the Rajah of Patiala with two dwarf servants
10. A young hill Rajah at Shimla
11. Dogs and Hawks, gifts from the King of Awadh to the Governor-General, with their attendants
12. Attendants of Rajah Kharak Singh
13. Maharajah Ranjit Singh
14. The favourite horse of Ranjit Singh with its groom; Emeralds and diamonds belonging to Ranjit Singh
15. Hunting leopards belonging to the King of Awadh with their attendants
16. Two of Alexander Burnes’ Arab servants
17. A Fakir attached to the Governor-General’s suite
18. A Student at the Hindu College in Calcutta; The daughter of one of the servants at Government House
19. Purtab Singh
20. A Camel despatch rider
21. The Rajah of Nahun and his sons; Anand Mussih, a Christian convert
22. A Group of Tibetan traders sketched at Shimla
23. A landowner and a Pathan
24. Lord Auckland receiving the Rajah of Nahun in Durbar.