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TITLE: Hindostan, Its Landscapes, Palaces, Temples, Tombs; the Shores of the Red Sea, and the Sublime and Romantic Scenery of the Himalaya Mountains
VOLUME: 1
AUTHOR: Emma Roberts
PUBLISHER: The Caxton press for Fisher, Son & Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1846
BINDING: Half leather bound with cloth boards, gilted spine and all edges gilt
NO.OF PAGES: 128 including 1 b & w engraved frontispiece, 1 b & w vignette title, 7 hand colored plates and 47 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 29 cm
Width: 23 cm
Depth: 1.5 cm
TITLE: Hindostan, Its Landscapes, Palaces, Temples, Tombs, the Shores of the Red Sea, and the Sublime and Romantic Scenery of the Himalaya Mountains
VOLUME: 2
AUTHOR:Emma Roberts
PUBLISHER: The Caxton press for Fisher, Son & Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1846
BINDING: Half leather bound with cloth boards, gilted spine and all edges gilt
NO.OF PAGES: 104 including 1 b & w engraved frontispiece, 1 b & w vignette title and 46 b & w engraved plates
SIZE:
Height: 29 cm
Width: 23 cm
Depth: 1.5 cm
Originally published in parts during 1845 and 1846, of a fine work by a travelling lady, with superb illustrations by leading landscape and architectural artists. Illustrated in a Series of Views Drawn by Turner, Stanfield, Prout, Cattermole, Roberts, Allom, Etc. from Original Sketches by Commander Robt. Elliot, R.N.Lieut & Geo. Francis White and descriptions by Emma Roberts
'EmmaRoberts (1794-1840) was an English poet and travel writer. After the death of her mother left her with limited means, Roberts accompanied her married sister to Bengal where her brother- in-law was stationed. After her sister's death, Roberts relocated to Calcutta and began writing for the Oriental Observer. She returned to England in 1832 when her own health began to fail, but came back to India in 1839. This time she took up residence in Bombay, travelling and writing for the Asiatic Journal.In 1840 she fell ill suddenly and died. Roberts' Hindostan is a vivid description of her travels through Northern India. Roberts was considered perhaps the most accomplished female traveller of the era, and while she was fascinated with India's exotic landscape, she also described it as a place of death and decay. Her work was incredibly influential among British audiences and helped to characterize India as a place of great duality' (Women in India, UC Santa Barbara Library, online). In 1839, 'travelling by the overland route through France and Egypt, she reached Bombay in November and set to work on a book about the presidency. She also contributed to local periodicals, edited a new weekly paper, the Bombay United Service Gazette, and interested herself in education for Indians and in a scheme for providing Indian women with suitable employment. She was taken ill in April 1840 while on a visit to Satara; she moved to Poona in the hope of recovery, but died and was buried there on 17September, the day after her arrival. Her book on her journey to Bombay and stay there was subsequently published with a memoir of her life in 1841. She had been a popular figure, and her death was mourned by Europeans and Indians alike. Her contemporaries remarked on her attractive appearance and her unassuming manner and good humour, which made everyone at ease in her company' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
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