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FANNY PARKS (1794-1875)
Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in search of the picturesque. London: Pelham Richardson, 1850. 2 vols, 4° (274 x 187mm). 4 chromo- and 14 further coloured lithographic plates, with 8 tinted plates and 23 uncoloured plates, with an uncoloured large folding lithographic panorama of the Himalayas. (Some light spotting mainly affecting uncoloured plates, plates 3 and 4 more seriously spotted.) Contemporary half morocco, spines gilt (joints, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: Thomas George Baring, first Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy of India (1872-1876), armorial bookplate to the front pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION WITH THE RARE PANORAMA; THE VICEROY OF INDIA'S COPY. Having sailed for India in 1822, the author and her husband left Calcutta in 1826 to live 'up country' in Allahabad from whence she set out on extensive travels across the sub-continent visiting Cawnpore, Meerut, Delhi and the Himalayas. With extraordinary enthusiasm, remarkable stamina and unbounded curiosity she studied and sketched wherever she went. Her fluency in Hindustani and her friendships with Indian women, particularly the Muslim princess married to Col. William Gardner and the ex-queen of Gwailor, enabled her to penetrate into areas of Indian life from which Europeans were normally excluded, the zenana included. Abbey Travel, 476. (2)
Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in search of the picturesque. London: Pelham Richardson, 1850. 2 vols, 4° (274 x 187mm). 4 chromo- and 14 further coloured lithographic plates, with 8 tinted plates and 23 uncoloured plates, with an uncoloured large folding lithographic panorama of the Himalayas. (Some light spotting mainly affecting uncoloured plates, plates 3 and 4 more seriously spotted.) Contemporary half morocco, spines gilt (joints, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: Thomas George Baring, first Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy of India (1872-1876), armorial bookplate to the front pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION WITH THE RARE PANORAMA; THE VICEROY OF INDIA'S COPY. Having sailed for India in 1822, the author and her husband left Calcutta in 1826 to live 'up country' in Allahabad from whence she set out on extensive travels across the sub-continent visiting Cawnpore, Meerut, Delhi and the Himalayas. With extraordinary enthusiasm, remarkable stamina and unbounded curiosity she studied and sketched wherever she went. Her fluency in Hindustani and her friendships with Indian women, particularly the Muslim princess married to Col. William Gardner and the ex-queen of Gwailor, enabled her to penetrate into areas of Indian life from which Europeans were normally excluded, the zenana included. Abbey Travel, 476. (2)