TAYLER, William. Sketches illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians, London: Thomas McLean, 1842, 2°, lithographed title, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Bouvier after Tayler (one plate with a deep closed tear, light marginal browning, margins chipped, text spotted and dampstained), unbound as issued, contemporary cloth portofolio (morocco reback, rubbed). [Abbey Travel 465; Colas 2858]

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TAYLER, William. Sketches illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians, London: Thomas McLean, 1842, 2°, lithographed title, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Bouvier after Tayler (one plate with a deep closed tear, light marginal browning, margins chipped, text spotted and dampstained), unbound as issued, contemporary cloth portofolio (morocco reback, rubbed). [Abbey Travel 465; Colas 2858]

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Bookplate of Hugh Fraser Sandeman; annotations in ink of the Sandeman family to lower margin of each plate.

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Tayler entered the service of the East India Company in 1829, and according to DNB "his official career had been uneventful, though he made friends in high quarters by his skill as a portrait painter, and some enemies by a turn for caricature". His actions during the mutiny enforced his retirement in 1859.

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