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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1756 -1827)

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THE GRAND MASTER OR THE ADVENTURES OF QUI HI? IN HINDOSTAN
Dimension: 9. 5 x 6 in

R 75,000 - R 90,000

Winning Bid: ₹ 70,000 + Premium/Taxes

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A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz. Illustrated with engravings by Rowlandson, London. Printed by Thomas Jegg, 1816
pp. 252, 1 folding hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece (map), 1 hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title, 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates + 1 plate with sepia tone
Half leather bound with marbled boards and raised bands on spine and gilt designs and title in compartments

Provenance Provenance

Originally acquired from 'H.J. BALLS, Bookbinder, Kings Cross', London, labelled inside back cover binding

Literature Literature

List of Plates / Engravings:
1. A New Map of India from the Latest Authority (hand coloured folding map/caricature)
2. Hand-coloured title page
3. A Scene in the Channel
4. The Modern Idol Juggernaut
5. Miseries of the First of the Month
6. The Burning System Illustrated
7. Missionary Influence or How to make converts
8. An Extraordinary Eclipse
9. Labour in vain or his reverence confounded
10. Hindoo prejudices
11. John Bull converting the Indians
12. More Incantations or a Journey to the interior
13. Miseries in India
14. The Bear and Ragged Staff
15. Hindoo Incantations a View in Elephanta
16. Phantasmagoria a View in Elephanta
17. The Modern Phaeton or the Hugely in Danger
18. Qui Hi arrives at the Bunder Hotel
19. Qui Hi in the Bombay tavern
20. Pays a nocturnal visit to Dungaree
21. Attends General Koir Wigs Levee
22. Qui Hi's Introduction & cool reception
23. Qui Hi shews off at Bobbery Hunt
24. Qui Hi at Bobbery Hall
25. All Alive in the Chokee
26. Last Visit from Doctors Assistant
27. Qui Hi's last march to Padree Burrows's Go Down
28. Auspicio-Regis Et Senatus Anglia. Strange Figures Near the Cave of Elephanta - 1814 (uncoloured / sepia tone plate)

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