CAUNTER, HOBART; DANIELL, WILLIAM
THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL 1834-1840 COMPLETE SET WITH OVER 150 ENGRAVINGS BY WILLIAM DANIELL
CONTAINING A SERIES OF TALES, LEGENDS & HISTORICAL ROMANCES.SEVEN VOLUME SET
Year: 1834-1840
Size: 20.5 x 13.5 cm (8 x 5.3 inches)
Published by Whittaker & Co. Ave Maria Lane.
Number of Engravings: 153 engraved Coloured plates
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COMPLETE SET OF ALL SEVEN VOLUMES, IN PRISTINE CONDITION.
Later Hand Colored
Six volumes are in Elephant Image on front board binding and one in Budhha image on front board binding.
8vo, 153 steel engraved plates, Publisher's original embossed dark brown morocco, gilt elephant with a howdah on both boards, blind images of snakes at the four corners of boards, gilt camel and palm-tree on spine, title in gilt on spine; all edges gilt. with all 153 Engravings called for are present. Good Condition.
Caunter “went to India about 1810 as a cadet with the 34th foot, but was soon disgusted with his situation and, ‘having discovered, much to his disappointment, nothing on the continent of Asia to interest him’, he returned home. He recorded his impressions of India in a poem entitled The Cadet (2 vols., 1814).
He published five volumes entitled The Oriental Annual of Science (1834-8).
The fine and evocative plates are after William Daniell who initially accompanied his celebrated uncle Thomas Daniell to India between 1786 and 1793. On his return to London in 1794, Daniell spent the next fifteen years working on the aquatints for their joint work “Oriental Scenery” published in six volumes between 1795-1808). “Unlike his uncle, William increasingly produced representations of Indian figures and small, waterside scenes, concentrating less on topography than on oriental fantasy, [he] was an extremely accomplished aqua tinter and etcher and at times experimented with the latest printmaking techniques as adopted by J. M. W. Turner, for instance wiping out highlights in his watercolors. He was a prolific print maker, producing a series of high-quality productions that included A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India (1802-5); and the Oriental Annual (1835). His most famous independent work was his Voyage round Great Britain (4 vols., 1814-25), which made extensive use of sepia wash” (Natasha Eaton for DNB).
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Excellent Condition
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