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Capt. Robert Melville Grindlay
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1830.
Six part in one volume, 2° (398 x 312mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates on thick paper by Reeve, Fielding, Hunt, and others after Grindlay, W. Westall, D. Roberts, C. Stanfield and others. (A few leaves with minor marginal dust-soiling, a few loose.) Contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments (slightly worn, hinges weak), g.e.
The third of three issues of this work (see note to previous lot). 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.
Six part in one volume, 2° (398 x 312mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates on thick paper by Reeve, Fielding, Hunt, and others after Grindlay, W. Westall, D. Roberts, C. Stanfield and others. (A few leaves with minor marginal dust-soiling, a few loose.) Contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments (slightly worn, hinges weak), g.e.
The third of three issues of this work (see note to previous lot). 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').