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CAPTAIN ROBERT MELVILLE GRINDLAY (1786-1877)
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1830. 6 parts in one volume, 2° (404 x 310mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured lithographic vignette and 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates on thick paper by R.G. Reeve, C. Bentley and others, after W. Westall, R.M. Grindlay, C. Stanfield, D. Roberts and others. (Some very occasional light spotting and browning, light off-setting of text onto plate 15.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt by J. Wright, spine richly gilt in six compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in the second, others decorated with foliate tools, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed and scuffed).
A FINE COPY. 'NEXT TO DANIELL, THE MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON INDIA' (Tooley). Grindlay, a self-taught amateur artist, went to India in 1803, aged 17. He served with the East India Company's military service from 1804-20 and during this period made a large number of sketches and drawings recording the life and landscape of India. This copy is the third issue of the work (the first being bound from parts, the second bound as two volumes without part titles, and finally this, the third, bound with one title) in a finely-executed binding by John Wright (d.1854), 'a binder of the highest order' (Ramsden, London Book Binders, p.154). For William Westall's original pencil and watercolour drawing for plate 29, 'Entrance of the Great Cave Temple of Elephanta, near Bombay', see the following lot. Abbey Travel, 442; Colas 1334; Tooley (1954) 239.
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1830. 6 parts in one volume, 2° (404 x 310mm). Engraved title with hand-coloured lithographic vignette and 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates on thick paper by R.G. Reeve, C. Bentley and others, after W. Westall, R.M. Grindlay, C. Stanfield, D. Roberts and others. (Some very occasional light spotting and browning, light off-setting of text onto plate 15.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt by J. Wright, spine richly gilt in six compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in the second, others decorated with foliate tools, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed and scuffed).
A FINE COPY. 'NEXT TO DANIELL, THE MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON INDIA' (Tooley). Grindlay, a self-taught amateur artist, went to India in 1803, aged 17. He served with the East India Company's military service from 1804-20 and during this period made a large number of sketches and drawings recording the life and landscape of India. This copy is the third issue of the work (the first being bound from parts, the second bound as two volumes without part titles, and finally this, the third, bound with one title) in a finely-executed binding by John Wright (d.1854), 'a binder of the highest order' (Ramsden, London Book Binders, p.154). For William Westall's original pencil and watercolour drawing for plate 29, 'Entrance of the Great Cave Temple of Elephanta, near Bombay', see the following lot. Abbey Travel, 442; Colas 1334; Tooley (1954) 239.
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