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TAYLER (WILLIAM) Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, Thomas McLean, 1842 image 1
TAYLER (WILLIAM) Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, Thomas McLean, 1842 image 2
TAYLER (WILLIAM) Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, Thomas McLean, 1842 image 3
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TAYLER (WILLIAM)
Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, Thomas McLean, 1842

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
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TAYLER (WILLIAM)

Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, title, dedication leaf to Lady William Bentinck, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Bouvier after Tayler, each with letterpress description, some toning to plates (3 with minor loss to lower fore-corner), some spotting and foxing to text leaves, contents loose in publisher's cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover, rebacked [Abbey Travel 465; Colas 2858], folio (538 x 264mm.), Thomas McLean, 1842

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RARE suite of plates, captioned: The Young Civilian's Toilet; The Young Lady's Toilet; The Breakfast; The Women Grinding at the Mill; The Sunyasees; The Village Barber.

William Tayler (1808–1892), educated at Charterhouse, arrived in Bengal in 1829, where he served in various capacities for the East India Company. "A keen amateur dramatist and skilful caricaturist, but while his witty portraits of Anglo-Indian notables won him some influential friends in Calcutta, the light-hearted nature of his artistic pursuits earned for him a reputation as a somewhat flighty, unserious officer" (ODNB).

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