Set of 2 pre-1850 books on India with 58 engravings

a) Thomas Bacon, The Orientalist; containing a Series of Tales, Legends, and Historical Romances, London: Thomas Arnold, 1842

(In Two Volumes)
Volume 1: pp. 251 + 18 plates
Volume 2: pp. 244 + 18 plates

Engravings by W and E Finden from sketches by the author and Captain Meadows Taylor
Original, gilt-embossed bindings, all edges gilt (each)
8 x 5.4 in (20 x 13.5 cm) (each)

b) Linney Gilbert, India Illustrated. An Historical and Descriptive Account of that Important and Interesting Country, London: published by the proprietor, Circa 1856s

vii, (1), 232p., engraved title vignette and 22 steel engraved plate illustrations by William Daniell; all edges gilt, original dark green cloth gilt, decorated spine showing a shikari on elephant back hunting a tiger
9.7 x 6.7 in (24.6 x 17 cm)

An early travelogue of India in the latter days of the rule of the East India Company. Gilbert provides a view intended for a British audience of "India as it is" its people, customs, natural history, and geography. Splendidly illustrated by noted English watercolourist, William Daniel who had travelled extensively in India from 1786 to 1794 and whose works influenced greatly the British popular conception of the Indian subcontinent. Ex-library copy

(Set of two)

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