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INDIA-CARICATURE] D'OYLY, CHARLES, Sir. Tom Raw the Griffin, A Burlesque Poem... London: R. Ackermann, 1828. First edition. Original publisher's orange cloth, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. 9 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches (25 x 15.5 cm); [2], vii, [3], 325, [1], 10 pp. ads., with 25 hand-colored plates. Rebacked as noted, some binding soil, in all a good uncut copy.; Together with The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan... London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. First edition. Later tan calf. 9 x 5 5/8 inches (23 x 14 cm); folding frontispiece, hand-colored engraved title, iii-x, 252 pp., errata slip, with 26 plates by Rowlandson. Folding plate backed with linen with a small loss to the lower margin, in all a clean copy. The first work is a rather charming account of the misadventures of and East India Company cadet, presented here in publisher's cloth, a rare survival (though copies are also noted in boards, and this may be a remainder binding). The second is a particularly virulent attack on Warren Hastings and his rule of India from 1773 to 1785. The first Abbey Travel 450, Tooley 186; the second Abbey Travel 437, Tooley 412. C