Item #144062 The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising Twenty-five Engravings from Original Drawings by William Daniell, R.A., and a Descriptive Account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter [1834]. Reverend Hobart CAUNTER.
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising Twenty-five Engravings from Original Drawings by William Daniell, R.A., and a Descriptive Account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter [1834]
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising Twenty-five Engravings from Original Drawings by William Daniell, R.A., and a Descriptive Account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter [1834]
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising Twenty-five Engravings from Original Drawings by William Daniell, R.A., and a Descriptive Account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter [1834]
The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising Twenty-five Engravings from Original Drawings by William Daniell, R.A., and a Descriptive Account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter [1834]

The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India; comprising Twenty-five Engravings from Original Drawings by William Daniell, R.A., and a Descriptive Account by the Rev. Hobart Caunter [1834]

London, Edward Bull, 1834.

Octavo, [viii], 254, [2] (publisher's advertisements) pages plus 25 steel-engraved plates (including the additional engraved title) after drawings by William Daniell.

Original full olive morocco elaborately blocked in gilt and blind; all edges gilt; leather lightly scuffed and a little rubbed at the extremities, with the spine lightly sunned; plates and adjacent leaves foxed (as often); stitching slightly shaken; tiny area of loss in the gutter of three consecutive leaves (I1-3, a trifling production flaw); a few other minor signs of age and handling; some tissue-guards missing (but no bad thing, as those that remain are foxed); a very good copy in an impressive publisher's binding of the period.

The first volume of this lavish illustrated annual, which incorporates a fictionalised travelogue of a journey through India, descriptions of important landmarks, and short histories and biographies. Publication ceased after the 1840 issue.

Daniell's drawings date from his travels in India in the 1780s and 1790s, and Caunter's text may also be in part a sensationalised version of Daniell's journal (see 'Bengal Past and Present', Volume 25, 1923).

Faxon: 'Literary Annuals and Gift-Books' 1655.

Item #144062

Price (AUD): $550.00

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