Lot 52
  • 52

D'Oyly, Charles, Sir

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Views of Calcutta and Its Environs. London: Lithographed & Published by Dickinson & Co., 1848
  • Paper, ink, leather
Broadsheets (26 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.; 668 x 495 mm). Tinted lithographed title and 25 tinted plates (one folding, two plates each with 2 views) after D'Oyly by W. Robert and Lowes Dickinson; very occasional marginal soiling or spotting, folding plate with short marginal tear and fold separation. Publisher's green cloth, front cover gilt with a large vignette of an arched gateway enclosing title, original green morocco spine and corners, marbled endpapers; backstrip replaced, extremities very rubbed with minor loss, some soiling and fading.

Literature

Abbey, Travel 497; Tooley (1954) 187 

Condition

Broadsheets (26 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.; 668 x 495 mm). Tinted lithographed title and 25 tinted plates (one folding, two plates each with 2 views) after D'Oyly by W. Robert and Lowes Dickinson; very occasional marginal soiling or spotting, folding plate with short marginal tear and fold separation. Publisher's green cloth, front cover gilt with a large vignette of an arched gateway enclosing title, original green morocco spine and corners, marbled endpapers; backstrip replaced, extremities very rubbed with minor loss, some soiling and fading.
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Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION, TINTED ISSUE.