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[D’OYLY, Sir Charles (1781-1845)]. Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque Poem … of the Adventures of a Cadet in the East India Company’s Service. London: R. Ackermann, 1828.
8° (254 x 159mm). Half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 24 hand-coloured plates after the author, of which 21 are aquatints and 3 lithographs, 10 pages of advertisements bound in at end. (Slight offsetting from plates.) Original drab boards, paper label on spine, uncut, in a green morocco-backed folding box (tail of spine chipped and a little frayed, covers lightly spotted and rubbed). Provenance: Mary Brooke Cox (manuscript inscription on endpaper, dated 1828) – Edward Henry Hill (bookplate) -- Cortlandt F. Bishop (bookplate; purchased at his sale, 6 April 1938, lot 664).
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, described in the Bishop catalogue as 'very scarce in this choice state'. The poem 'by a civilian and an officer on the Bengal Establishment' describes the adventures of a cadet newly arrived in Calcutta. Sir Charles D’Oyly, an administrator in India and prolific amateur artist, wrote the doggerel epic and illustrated it with his own drawings. Plates with 1826 watermark. Abbey Travel 450; Schwerdt I, p.149; Tooley 186.
8° (254 x 159mm). Half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 24 hand-coloured plates after the author, of which 21 are aquatints and 3 lithographs, 10 pages of advertisements bound in at end. (Slight offsetting from plates.) Original drab boards, paper label on spine, uncut, in a green morocco-backed folding box (tail of spine chipped and a little frayed, covers lightly spotted and rubbed). Provenance: Mary Brooke Cox (manuscript inscription on endpaper, dated 1828) – Edward Henry Hill (bookplate) -- Cortlandt F. Bishop (bookplate; purchased at his sale, 6 April 1938, lot 664).
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, described in the Bishop catalogue as 'very scarce in this choice state'. The poem 'by a civilian and an officer on the Bengal Establishment' describes the adventures of a cadet newly arrived in Calcutta. Sir Charles D’Oyly, an administrator in India and prolific amateur artist, wrote the doggerel epic and illustrated it with his own drawings. Plates with 1826 watermark. Abbey Travel 450; Schwerdt I, p.149; Tooley 186.
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