In the author's collection, there is an album of the type that was very much in vogue in Victorian times, with an excellent cloth cover, sound binding, and thick cardboard leaves with floral and ornate designs, made for family portraits. Instead of portraits, however, it has 12 architectural studies of monuments in Bijapur, a ruined city some 350 miles from Bombay.

The cover title, embossed in gold, reads Album, Views of Bijapur. Also embossed is the name 'B. Mannurkar', but whoever this may have been, he was not the photographer. The photographer's name is to be found on a ticket, grudgingly stuck in a comer: 'K. R. Torvi, Artist, Bijapur'. Mannurkar may have sold guide books to the (largely English) visitors to the famous city, then in the realm of the Nizam of Hyderabad.