HORACE HAYMAN WILSON (EDITOR; 1786-1860) The Oriental Portfolio . London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1841. 2° (492 x 347mm). Additional hand-coloured lithographic title and 9 (of 10) hand-coloured tinted lithographic plates. (Spotted throughout, additional title heavily.) Original quarter green crushed morocco over green moiré fine ribbed cloth sides, lettered in gilt to upper cover, yellow-glazed endpaper, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, top corner bumped and creased, the whole sometime recased). Second edition. David Roberts and Thomas Dibdin prepared drawings after Thomas Bacon's sketches. Together they 'transmuted Bacon's charming originals into splendid designs of true 1830s orientalism... it is greatly to be regretted then that the Portfolio expired after its second number in 1840, for if completed Roberts and his associates might have left us an India equal in sensitiveness and suggestiveness with his Spain, Palestine, and Egypt' (Lightbown). The work was reissued in one volume with the same title in 1841 which is often confused with this rare first edition. ABPC records no complete copy in parts selling at auction in over 30 years. Not in Abbey. Lightbown, India Observed , pp.122-6, 149-50 nos 183-4.
HORACE HAYMAN WILSON (EDITOR; 1786-1860) The Oriental Portfolio . London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1841. 2° (492 x 347mm). Additional hand-coloured lithographic title and 9 (of 10) hand-coloured tinted lithographic plates. (Spotted throughout, additional title heavily.) Original quarter green crushed morocco over green moiré fine ribbed cloth sides, lettered in gilt to upper cover, yellow-glazed endpaper, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, top corner bumped and creased, the whole sometime recased). Second edition. David Roberts and Thomas Dibdin prepared drawings after Thomas Bacon's sketches. Together they 'transmuted Bacon's charming originals into splendid designs of true 1830s orientalism... it is greatly to be regretted then that the Portfolio expired after its second number in 1840, for if completed Roberts and his associates might have left us an India equal in sensitiveness and suggestiveness with his Spain, Palestine, and Egypt' (Lightbown). The work was reissued in one volume with the same title in 1841 which is often confused with this rare first edition. ABPC records no complete copy in parts selling at auction in over 30 years. Not in Abbey. Lightbown, India Observed , pp.122-6, 149-50 nos 183-4.
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