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Lot 106

LODWICK (R.W., BOMBAY CIVIL SERVICE)
Humorous Sketches in the World We Live In, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "To the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone the friend & patron of his father this copy is presented as a mark of respect by R.W. Lodwick, Bombay, April 25th 1856" on the front free endpaper, Bombay, Drawn by the Author, and Lithographed at the Education Society's Press, 1856

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LODWICK (R.W., BOMBAY CIVIL SERVICE)

Humorous Sketches in the World We Live In, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "To the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone the friend & patron of his father this copy is presented as a mark of respect by R.W. Lodwick, Bombay, April 25th 1856" on the front free endpaper, 40 lithographed plates (each with several caricatures by the author), occasional light spotting, contemporary red half morocco gilt over cloth, pictorial label (captioned "Humours Sketches") on upper cover, 4to, Bombay, Drawn by the Author, and Lithographed at the Education Society's Press, 1856

Footnotes

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY of a series of caricatures in which the author desires "to expose the absurdities of Indian life in a good-humoured manner... [and] trusts that no one will take offence". Whilst his British audience may not have taken offence, the local population depicted would undoubtedly have done so.

Provenance: Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lieutenant-Governor of Bombay from 1819-1827, gifted by the author.

Saleroom notices

The binding is half "calf gilt", not half "red morocco"

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