Rowlandson Combe The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui-Hi 1816
$2,000.00
[Combe, William], The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui-Hi? In Hindoustan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz. London, Tegg, 1816. 28 plates by Rowlandson, 27 colored, 1 uncolored, signed luxurious binding in full red levant morocco, stamped “Bound by Rivière & Son”. Five raised bands. Magnificent fold-out frontispiece and illustrated title-page. Large 8vo. Richly gilt back, gilt edges. First edition.
[Combe, William], The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui-Hi? In Hindoustan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz. London, Tegg, 1816. 28 plates by Rowlandson, 27 colored, 1 uncolored, signed luxurious binding in full red levant morocco, stamped “Bound by Rivière & Son”. Five raised bands. Magnificent fold-out frontispiece and illustrated title-page. Large 8vo. Richly gilt back, gilt edges. First edition. Front hinge cracked but holding. Off-setting from illustrations, as expected. Lacks cancel, errata. A fine copy.
Decorated spine of the bookFront cover of the bookInside front cover showing extra-gilt decoration in gold and blue endpapers.“Hindou Prejudices” with conversation balloons over the figures depicted in Rowlandson’s illustration.Illustration of a group of men observing an eclipse, “An Extraordinary Eclipse.”“The Modern Idol Jaggernaut,” showing a heavy wagon running over observers.Detail of fold-out frontispiece of a magnificent elephant, showing labels of a political nature on the cloth under a howdah..Title-page, hand-colored.Fold-out hand-colored frontispiece shown in full of a tethered elephant, titled “A New Map of India According to the Latest Authority.”
Hand-colored illustration, a caricature of domestic servants, “Miseries in India.”.
Hand-colored illustration, “Hindou Incantations a View in Elephanta.”Canto I of the poem.“Invocation to Butler,”Page 2 of “The Grand Master.”Preface to the Reader.
