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LIEUTENANT JOSEPH MOORE
Eighteen Views taken at & near Rangoon, London: T. Clay, [1825-1826 (watermarked 1824-1825)].
Oblong 2° (358 x 498mm). Etched and stipple-engraved dedication/title by R.W. Smart after Thomas Stothard, engraved subscribers leaf with vignette by J. Bromley after Stothard, 6pp. lithographed list of subscribers, 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates, including two plates marked 'proof', by G. Hunt, H. Pyall, T. Fielding and Reeve jnr., after Moore. (Title and subscribers list spotted and with tears to margins, final lithographed leaf creased and repaired with tears to margins, plate 9 with repaired tear affecting image area, old marginal dampstaining to plates 16-18, marginal tears to plates 1, 4, 9, 17 and 18, plate 18 spotted.) Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind, the flat spine gilt with decorative tooling flanking gilt lettered title, gilt turn-ins, red glazed-endpapers (scuffed and rubbed, extremities worn). Provenance: Charles MacKinnon (1780-1840).
FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, FORMING AN IMPORTANT VISUAL RECORD OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BURMA and of the war between the Burmese and British in 1824 to 1826. Joseph Moore, a Lieutenant in the 89th Regiment, includes images that begin with the departure of Campbell's invasion force and conclude in July 1824. This work is complete as issued, but was also published in other forms: 18 plates with preliminaries as above but accompanied by a 40pp. small 4to booklet of explanatory text with a map of Rangoon. A second series of six plates after sketches by Captain Frederick Marryat was added about eight months after the completion of the present series (these plates covered operations from August 1824 to March 1825 and were accompanied by 4ll. of text). Charles MacKinnon, one of the subscribers to this work and a director in the East India Company, was responsible for the bringing of rhubarb to England, having discovered its medicinal properties.
Abbey Travel, 404.
Eighteen Views taken at & near Rangoon, London: T. Clay, [1825-1826 (watermarked 1824-1825)].
Oblong 2° (358 x 498mm). Etched and stipple-engraved dedication/title by R.W. Smart after Thomas Stothard, engraved subscribers leaf with vignette by J. Bromley after Stothard, 6pp. lithographed list of subscribers, 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates, including two plates marked 'proof', by G. Hunt, H. Pyall, T. Fielding and Reeve jnr., after Moore. (Title and subscribers list spotted and with tears to margins, final lithographed leaf creased and repaired with tears to margins, plate 9 with repaired tear affecting image area, old marginal dampstaining to plates 16-18, marginal tears to plates 1, 4, 9, 17 and 18, plate 18 spotted.) Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind, the flat spine gilt with decorative tooling flanking gilt lettered title, gilt turn-ins, red glazed-endpapers (scuffed and rubbed, extremities worn). Provenance: Charles MacKinnon (1780-1840).
FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, FORMING AN IMPORTANT VISUAL RECORD OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BURMA and of the war between the Burmese and British in 1824 to 1826. Joseph Moore, a Lieutenant in the 89th Regiment, includes images that begin with the departure of Campbell's invasion force and conclude in July 1824. This work is complete as issued, but was also published in other forms: 18 plates with preliminaries as above but accompanied by a 40pp. small 4to booklet of explanatory text with a map of Rangoon. A second series of six plates after sketches by Captain Frederick Marryat was added about eight months after the completion of the present series (these plates covered operations from August 1824 to March 1825 and were accompanied by 4ll. of text). Charles MacKinnon, one of the subscribers to this work and a director in the East India Company, was responsible for the bringing of rhubarb to England, having discovered its medicinal properties.
Abbey Travel, 404.
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