DANIELL, THOMAS, AND WILLIAM DANIELL | A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China. London: Thomas Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and William Daniell, 1810

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

DANIELL, THOMAS, AND WILLIAM DANIELL

A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China. London: Thomas Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and William Daniell, 1810

Oblong folio (9 5/8 x 13 3/8 in.; 245 x 340 mm). 50 hand-colored aquatint plates on thick paper by Thomas & William Daniell with letterpress captions on facing pages; some offsetting, some spotting throughout, some toning. Half brown calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second, fourth, and sixth ruled and lettered in silver, all edges marbled; rebacked to style, endpapers renewed.

First edition

REFERENCE:

Abbey, Travel 516; Tooley 173