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Original green cloth binding with title and author on the spine, also vignette on the front cover - xv, 256 pp. + 31 leaves with 38 photos + 4 (partly folding) maps.

First edition of 1916 (later reprint 1928).

Condition: Good. Foxing, due to poor paper quality. A neat copy without markings.

Contains 19 chapters:
The wonder of the past, The road through the jungle, The beautiful city of Anuradhapura, Lankarama district: a world of Monks, The two greatest Dagabas, About and around, Pavilion, Palace, or Monastry?, Vijayarama-a jungle solitude, The outlying monasteries, Mihintale, The sacred Hill, Sigiriya: A Palace on a rock, Polonnaruwa: The jungle city, The epic of Parakrama, Polonnaruwa: The citadel, A necklet of architecture, Sacred shrines, A flower in stone, The beauty of the Bund, Yapahuwa: A fourteenth century fortress, Table of distances, Index.

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G.E. Mitton - The Lost Cities of Ceylon - 1916

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