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[Rowlandson]. The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan. London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. Hand-colored aquati...
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[Rowlandson]. The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan. London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. Hand-colored aquatints. Half bound polished calf with marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Extremities well rubbed. Foxing throughout. A very good copy.More Information:
Later printing. Octavo. 252 pages. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz. Gilt titles and decoration. Both ends of spine splitting with loss. Weak joints rubbed with splitting hinges. Fold-out frontispiece neatly reinforced with slight tear. Over two dozen hand-colored aquatints, with the last one being hand-tinted. Previous owner's name written on the back of each plate, sometimes bleeding onto the facing page. A few closed tears. Minor pencil notes. Missing both the rare errata slip and the cancel leaf. Mispagination: 30-33, 73-4 repeated. Bookplate.
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2011 April New York Signature Rare Books Auction #6053 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
April, 2011
7th-9th
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