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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., [1826]-1830. 6 parts in one vol., 2° (407 x 313mm). Hand-coloured engraved title, and 36 hand-coloured aquatints on thick paper with plate 36 bound as frontispiece as issued, by Reeve, Fielding and others after Grindlay, Daniell and others. (Occasional light spotting, mainly confined to plate guards.) Contemporary red half morocco by J. Wright, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (extremities faintly rubbed).
'NEXT TO DANIELL, THE MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON INDIA' (Tooley). A bright example with little of the spotting common in many copies. Grindlay, a self-taught amateur artist, went to India in 1803, aged 17. He served with the East India Company's military service from 1804-1820 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). Abbey Travel, 442; Colas 1334; Tooley 239.
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1826]-1830. 6 parts in one vol., 2° (407 x 313mm). Hand-coloured engraved title, and 36 hand-coloured aquatints on thick paper with plate 36 bound as frontispiece as issued, by Reeve, Fielding and others after Grindlay, Daniell and others. (Occasional light spotting, mainly confined to plate guards.) Contemporary red half morocco by J. Wright, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (extremities faintly rubbed).
'NEXT TO DANIELL, THE MOST ATTRACTIVE COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON INDIA' (Tooley). A bright example with little of the spotting common in many copies. Grindlay, a self-taught amateur artist, went to India in 1803, aged 17. He served with the East India Company's military service from 1804-1820 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). Abbey Travel, 442; Colas 1334; Tooley 239.