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GRINDLAY (Robert Melville): SCENERY, COSTUMES AND ARCHITECTURE CHIEFLY ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF INDIA, London, Smith Elder, [1826-] 1830
6 parts in 2 vols., folio (397 x 300mm.), engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, printed titles to parts II-VI (without lithographed title to vol. II and both contents leaves), and 36 FINE HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT VIEWS after Grindlay, W. Westall, D. Roberts, C. Stanfield, and others, by various engravers (one plate laid-down), nineteenth century calf, elaborately blind-tooled sides with double gilt fillet borders, spines gilt
Abbey Scenery 442; Tooley 239 "Next to Daniell, the most attractive colour plate book on India. One of the few books in which the name of the colourist is mentioned, viz. J.B. Hogarth" (2)
6 parts in 2 vols., folio (397 x 300mm.), engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, printed titles to parts II-VI (without lithographed title to vol. II and both contents leaves), and 36 FINE HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT VIEWS after Grindlay, W. Westall, D. Roberts, C. Stanfield, and others, by various engravers (one plate laid-down), nineteenth century calf, elaborately blind-tooled sides with double gilt fillet borders, spines gilt
Abbey Scenery 442; Tooley 239 "Next to Daniell, the most attractive colour plate book on India. One of the few books in which the name of the colourist is mentioned, viz. J.B. Hogarth" (2)