NON-EXPORTABLE
COMPLETE, EARLY SET OF 'THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED WORK EVER PUBLISHED ON INDIA' (Tooley)
TITLE: Oriental Scenery
VOLUME 1: With Part I, II and III
AUTHOR: Thomas and William Daniell
PUBLISHER: William Daniell and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown for Thomas and William Daniell
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1812
BINDING: Original half leather crushed morocco binding along with elaborate gilted spine and original marble boards
NO.OF PAGES: 300
SIZE:
Height: 36.6 cm
Width: 26.9 cm
Depth: 3.5 cm
TITLE: Oriental Scenery
VOLUME 2: With Part IV, V and VI
AUTHOR: Thomas and William Daniell
PUBLISHER: William Daniell and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown for Thomas and William Daniell
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1814, 1815, 1816
BINDING: Original half leather crushed morocco binding along with elaborate gilted spine and original marble boards
NO.OF PAGES: As per the list
SIZE:
Height: 36.6 cm
Width: 26.9 cm
Depth: 3.5 cm
6 parts in 2 volumes.
Typographic titles to first and fourth parts serving as general titles to volumes. 158 engraved plates comprising 144 aquatint plates, 6 aquatint title-pages and 8 engraved plans.
"The Daniells left England in 1785, when William was only about sixteen, and they were back in England in September 1794. From an early stage Thomas seems to have set out to emulate and surpass Hodges (Select Views in India) in popularizing his views through the comparatively new medium of aquatint. The uncle and nephew were determined not only to do better than Hodges but to expose the weaknesses of the pioneer's work by choosing the same views as Hodges had done, drawing them more accurately, and aquatintingthem more skilfully" (Abbey Scenery II, p.377).
First quarto edition of the Daniells' most celebrated work. '(Thomas) Daniell, assisted by his nephew (William), produced his best-known work Oriental Scenery (issued in six series) of Indian views making a total of 144 hand-coloured aquatint views of India. These represent Mughal and Dravidian monuments, cityscapes and sublime views of mountains and waterfalls and formed the most extensive work of its kind, finding subscribers throughout Britain as well as in Calcutta and Madras' (ODNB). This work contains plates carefully reduced and copied from the large folio edition, published between 1795 and 1808, under the Daniells' direction. Abbey Travel 432; Archer p.235; Sutton 13. Bookseller Inventory # 87497
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