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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator). 1st Edition. This book is in excellent condition accepting that the front cover is detached. It isn't noticeable until you open the book I think a bookbinder could easily reattach cover. Protected by a clean red slip cover (possibly original). .27 hand colored plates, including fold-out frontispiece and one sepia plate. Page numbers 73/74 are repeated but with different content.This is a satire against Lord Moira, the Marquis of Hastings, and the Governor General. The title page bears the Masonic emblems. Portrays the public view of the East India Company and the British disregard for Hindues practices.

First Edition of this ferocious satire of British colonial rule in India. Royal 8vo (244 x 150mm): iii-x,252pp, with folding frontispiece, illustrated title, and 25 full-page plates (all tissue-guarded hand-colored aquatints) and one sepia engraving. C8 (pp. 31-32) is a cancel ("frequently missing," according to Tooley), with p. 30 text reproduced on p. 32; pp. 73-74 folios repeated but no duplication of text. Wanting the errata slip (as often). Slightly later polished calf, covers framed in gilt, gilt dentelles, spine richly gilt in six compartments divided by raised bands, two red morocco lettering pieces gilt; top edge gilt, others untrimmed, French blue end papers. Tall wide-margined copy, securely bound (perhaps rebacked) and clean throughout with good impressions of the plates. Franklin, pp 68-71. Grolier (Rowlandson) 34. Tooley 412. Abbey (Travel) 437. Hardie, pp. 171, 317. Sometimes ascribed to William Combe, though Hamilton (Doctor Syntax: A Silhouette of William Combe) lists it as an imitation. Political satire directed against Lord Moira, Marquis of Hastings, who at the time was Governor General of Bengal and commander-in-chief of British forces in India; against the East India Company, for its Hindu prejudices, and against the church's patent disregard for Indian culture. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

First Edition. Twenty-Four Plates Depicting a Medieval Tournament [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator, attributed to]. The Tournament; or, Days of Chivalry. With twenty-four engravings. London: Printed for William Sams, 1823. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 226 x 146 mm.). [2], [1]-59 pp. Twenty-four unsigned hand-colored aquatint proof plates on India Paper mounted, all with imprint "London Pub. by W. Sams 1822." Bound by Henderson & Bisset, Edinburgh ca 1890 in three quarter red morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decoratively toole and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate "Omnia Vincit Veritas" (truth conquers all things) front paste-down. A fine example. Beautiful hand-colored plates, accompanied by a long poem on the adventures of a medieval knight. An anonymous verse work on a medieval jousting tournament and the colorful events surrounding it, reflecting the popularity of the subject in the 19th century as evinced by the various works by Meyrick and the publication in 1839 of the Eglington Tournament. "The National Library of Scotland has: 'A specimen book of binders' tools, prepared for use in the firm of Henderson & Bisset of Edinburgh, about 1860.' Stated to be bookbinders to the Queen from 1839 to 1892." (British Museum). Although OCLC records attribute Thomas Rowlandson as the illustrator, his name does not appear anywhere in the book itself. Not in Abbey or Tooley.