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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
1834Best.-Nr. 144062London: Edward Bull 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 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. Edward Bull hardcover
