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EMILY EDEN (1797-1869)
Portraits of the Princes & People of India. London: J.Dickinson & Son, 1844.
2° (540 x 445mm). Hand-coloured lithographic title and 24 hand-coloured plates after Eden by L. Dickinson, all mounted on card with printed captions pasted on versos, tissue guards. (Light spotting to most mounts, heavier in one or two, faint spotting in one or two plates.) Contemporary burgundy morocco, blind- and gilt-tooled border, cental panel of fillets intersecting at top and bottom, the resultant lozenges with floral tool, Greek key pattern on board edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (a little rubbed). Provenance: Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869, armorial bookplate, manuscript library location and shelf-mark for Knowsley Hall).
A RARE LARGE-PAPER DE LUXE COPY OF A SPLENDID WORK, FROM ONE OF THE FINEST 19TH-CENTURY LIBRARIES IN ENGLAND. Originally issued in four parts in wrappers, the subjects include members of princely families and their servants, religious devotees, Pathans, Tibetans and others. The Hon. Emily Eden was the sister of George, Lord Auckland (1784-1849), Governor-General of India from 1835 to 1841, and accompanied him during his term of office. As well as this volume, she published an account of her time in India, Up the Country. Letters written to her sister. (1866), and two novels, The Semi-detached House (1859) and The Semi-attached Couple (1860). Not in Abbey.
Portraits of the Princes & People of India. London: J.Dickinson & Son, 1844.
2° (540 x 445mm). Hand-coloured lithographic title and 24 hand-coloured plates after Eden by L. Dickinson, all mounted on card with printed captions pasted on versos, tissue guards. (Light spotting to most mounts, heavier in one or two, faint spotting in one or two plates.) Contemporary burgundy morocco, blind- and gilt-tooled border, cental panel of fillets intersecting at top and bottom, the resultant lozenges with floral tool, Greek key pattern on board edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (a little rubbed). Provenance: Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869, armorial bookplate, manuscript library location and shelf-mark for Knowsley Hall).
A RARE LARGE-PAPER DE LUXE COPY OF A SPLENDID WORK, FROM ONE OF THE FINEST 19TH-CENTURY LIBRARIES IN ENGLAND. Originally issued in four parts in wrappers, the subjects include members of princely families and their servants, religious devotees, Pathans, Tibetans and others. The Hon. Emily Eden was the sister of George, Lord Auckland (1784-1849), Governor-General of India from 1835 to 1841, and accompanied him during his term of office. As well as this volume, she published an account of her time in India, Up the Country. Letters written to her sister. (1866), and two novels, The Semi-detached House (1859) and The Semi-attached Couple (1860). Not in Abbey.