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Capt. Robert Melville Grindley (1786-1877)
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1830
6 parts in one volume, 2° (405 x 320mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates on thick paper by Reeve, W. Westall, D. Roberts, C. Stanfield and others, title to 1826 issue loosely inserted. (Occasional very slight dust-soiling.) Contemporary green half morocco, gilt spine (laid down, extremities scuffed), g.e. Third issue. Abbey Travel 442; Tooley 239 ('Next to Daniell, the most attractive colour plate book on India. One of the few books in which the colourist is mentioned, viz. J.B. Hogarth')
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1830
6 parts in one volume, 2° (405 x 320mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates on thick paper by Reeve, W. Westall, D. Roberts, C. Stanfield and others, title to 1826 issue loosely inserted. (Occasional very slight dust-soiling.) Contemporary green half morocco, gilt spine (laid down, extremities scuffed), g.e. Third issue. Abbey Travel 442; Tooley 239 ('Next to Daniell, the most attractive colour plate book on India. One of the few books in which the colourist is mentioned, viz. J.B. Hogarth')