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WILLIAM TAYLER (1808-1892)
Sketches illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians. London: Thomas Mclean, 1842.
2° (455 x 350mm). On thin card throughout. Lithographed title and dedication, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Bouvier after Tayler, each with printed leaf of text. (Slightly browned and spotted.) Original cloth gilt (neatly rebacked in morocco, inner hinges repaired). Provenance: James Watson (armorial bookplate).
Tayler entered the service of the East India Company in 1829, and according to DNB 'His official career had been uneventful, though he made friends in high quarters by his skill as a portrait painter, and some enemies by a turn for caricature'. His actions during the mutiny enforced his retirement in 1859. Abbey Travel 465.
Sketches illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians. London: Thomas Mclean, 1842.
2° (455 x 350mm). On thin card throughout. Lithographed title and dedication, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Bouvier after Tayler, each with printed leaf of text. (Slightly browned and spotted.) Original cloth gilt (neatly rebacked in morocco, inner hinges repaired). Provenance: James Watson (armorial bookplate).
Tayler entered the service of the East India Company in 1829, and according to DNB 'His official career had been uneventful, though he made friends in high quarters by his skill as a portrait painter, and some enemies by a turn for caricature'. His actions during the mutiny enforced his retirement in 1859. Abbey Travel 465.