Lot No. 46: Caunter, Hobart; Daniell, William and Bacon, Thomas

The Oriental Annual 1834-1840 (Seven Volume Set)

Medium: Printed book
Year: 1834-1840
Size: 17.3 x 11.7 inches
Place: London

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Caunter, Hobart; Daniell, William and Bacon, Thomas

The Oriental Annual 1834-1840 (Seven Volume Set)

Containing a series of Tales, Legends & Historical Romances.

First Edition
Year: 1834-1840
Size: 43.5 x 30 cm (17.3 x 11.7 inches).

AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COMPLETE SET OF ALL SEVEN VOLUMES, IN PRISTINE CONDITION.

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

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	Nickname	Amount(Rs)	Type	Date & Time(IST)
1	anon0200	198000.00	Regular	11-03-2024 12:03:15 PM IST

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Lot No. 46: Caunter, Hobart; Daniell, William and Bacon, Thomas

The Oriental Annual 1834-1840 (Seven Volume Set)

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Caunter, Hobart; Daniell, William and Bacon, Thomas

The Oriental Annual 1834-1840 (Seven Volume Set)

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