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MARIA DUNDAS GRAHAM, LADY CALLCOTT (1785-1842)
Journal of a residence in India ... illustrated by engravings. Edinburgh: George Ramsay and C. for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1812.
4° (255 x 200mm). Lithographic frontispiece printed in sepia and finished by hand, 15 etched plates, of which 2 folding and 12 hand-coloured, tissue guards. (Occasional short marginal tear not affecting text or plate mark.) Tangerine morocco with gilt roll-tool and fillet border interlaced at corners, each cover inset with an oval late 19th Century Company School watercolour miniature probably on ivory of the Taj Mahal, gilt-tooled border to inset, spine gilt in six compartments, lettered in two, gilt turn-ins, moire liners and end leaves, gilt edges, by Bayntun of Bath (miniature on upper cover with unobtrusive hair-line crack).
FIRST EDITION OF GRAHAM'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK. Maria Graham, born at Papcastle in Cockermouth into a Naval family, sailed for India in 1808 with her father, George Dundas, rear-admiral of the blue. In India she met Captain Thomas Graham R.N., married him in 1809, and soon after set out on the tour of India which provided material for this book. Her husband died in 1822, and in 1827 Maria married the artist Augustus Wall Callcott.
Journal of a residence in India ... illustrated by engravings. Edinburgh: George Ramsay and C. for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1812.
4° (255 x 200mm). Lithographic frontispiece printed in sepia and finished by hand, 15 etched plates, of which 2 folding and 12 hand-coloured, tissue guards. (Occasional short marginal tear not affecting text or plate mark.) Tangerine morocco with gilt roll-tool and fillet border interlaced at corners, each cover inset with an oval late 19th Century Company School watercolour miniature probably on ivory of the Taj Mahal, gilt-tooled border to inset, spine gilt in six compartments, lettered in two, gilt turn-ins, moire liners and end leaves, gilt edges, by Bayntun of Bath (miniature on upper cover with unobtrusive hair-line crack).
FIRST EDITION OF GRAHAM'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK. Maria Graham, born at Papcastle in Cockermouth into a Naval family, sailed for India in 1808 with her father, George Dundas, rear-admiral of the blue. In India she met Captain Thomas Graham R.N., married him in 1809, and soon after set out on the tour of India which provided material for this book. Her husband died in 1822, and in 1827 Maria married the artist Augustus Wall Callcott.