Scenery, costumes and architecture, chiefly on the western side of India, / by Capt. Robert Melville Grindlay, ...
Robert Melville Grindlay (1786-1877)
Category
Books
Date
1826 - 1830
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069837
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 pts. in 1 v. : col. ill. ; fol. Large paper, coloured copy. Title pages for individual parts not present. Includes "Advertisement" [i.e. acknowledgment] leaves for parts 2, 3-4 (together) and 6. Occasional pencil text annotation. Pencil initials "R.M." on front pastedown. Pencil number "11323" on rear pastedown. Ephemera: Affixed to flyleaf: Bookseller’s catalogue clipping, describing this copy and noting the unusual fact that the colourist’s name, J. B. Hogarth, is printed on several of the plates as well as that of the engraver. Loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half green morocco, green cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Scenery etc. of western India' and 'Grindlay'; gilt top edge. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, England'.
Makers and roles
Robert Melville Grindlay (1786-1877), author