First edition of the earliest catalogue to the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur, in northern India. In 1880 Thomas Holbein Hendley, British medical officer and Residing Surgeon of Jaipur, andan authority of Indian art, had suggested to the local Maharaja that he should open a museum of Industrial Arts to display products of local craftsmen, past and present. Hendley's proposal was approved and he set about assembling an astonishing collection of Indian textiles, jewellery, brassware, idols, ivory inlay, stone carvings, pottery, lacquer work, etc. to educate local craftsmen and artists and to preserve traditional Indian workmanship free of Western influences. The collection eventually moved to the splendid Indo-Saracenic designed Albert Hall which had been built in the centre of Jaipur in 1887. Thomas Holbein Hendley was appointed the museums first curator and wrote the catalogue. The catalogue gives a history of the collection and describesits more than 15,000 objects.The Handbook opens with 'Short Notes for the Information and guidance of Visitors to Jepore' listing the principal places of interest in Jaipur, and hotels, etc., among these the following information is found: 'As a rule, H.H. The Maharaja has been good enough to undertake to send an elephant for each party to the foot of the pass which leads to Amber. On public festivals, however, of which a list is hung up at the hotels, the elephants are required for processional purposes, and will not therefore be available for the use of visitors, who will be able to make other arrangements, and so not be disappointed at the last moment' (p. iii). (Bogoslav Winner Cat. 4 (2016) # 25).