This volume covers a wide range of interesting subjects, architecture, landscape, flora and fauna, people, costumes, and customs, to mention only a few. They convey the tremendous pictorial richness of prints, engravings, and lithographs relating to India which had a wide market in 18th–19th-century British India.
 
Pauline Rohatgi, formerly Curator of Prints and Drawings at the India Office Library, has specialized in prints of British artists in India. She has written several publications on the subject.

Pheroza Godrej, an art specialist in Bombay, is currently preparing a catalogue of topographical prints of India in collaboration with Pauline Rohatgi.