The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan: A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos

Thomas Rowlandson, The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan: A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos, London: Thomas Jegg, 1816

x; 252 pp. including 1 folding aquatint frontispiece [actually an elephant caricature]; 1 aquatint pictorial title; 25 aquatint plates illustrated with engravings by Thomas Rowlandson and 1 with sepia wash; half leather bound with marbled boards and gilt text at the spine
9.6 x 6 in (24 x 15 cm)

Engravings are by Thomas Rowlandson, the great English caricaturist of the Georgian era.

LIST OF PLATES

1. A New Map of India from the Latest Authority (folding plate)
2. Title page
3. [A Scene in the Channel]
4. The Modern Idol Juggernaut
5. Miseries of the First of the Month
6. The Burning System Illustrated
7. Missionary Influence or How to make converts
8. An Extraordinary Eclipse
9. Labour in vain or his reverence confounded
10. Hindoo prejudices
11. John Bull converting the Indians
12. More Incantations or a Journey to the interior
13. Miseries in India
14. The Bear and Ragged Staff
15. Hindoo Incantations a View in Elephanta
16. Phantasmagoria a View in Elephanta
17. The Modern Phaeton or the Hugely in Danger
18. Qui Hi arrives at the Bunder Hotel
19.Qui Hi in the Bombay tavern
20. Pays a nocturnal visit to Dungaree
21. Attends General Koir Wigs Levee
22. Qui Hi's Introduction & cool reception
23. Qui Hi shews off at Bobbery Hunt
24. Qui Hi at Bobbery Hall
25. All Alive in the Chokee
26. Last Visit from Doctors Assistant
27. Qui Hi's last march to Padree Burrows's Go Down

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