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The Max and Peter Allen Collection of the Graphic Art of British India
Lot 15

TAYLER, WILLIAM. 1808-1892.
Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life.... London: Thomas McLean, 1842.

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TAYLER, WILLIAM. 1808-1892.

Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life.... London: Thomas McLean, 1842.
Folio (530 x 360 mm). Dedication leaf, 6 hand-colored lithographic plates by J. Bouvier after Tayler, each with letterpress description. Contemporary half red roan and cloth, morocco gilt lettering piece on upper cover, modern linen-covered clamshell box. Rubbed, joints tender, hinges reinforced, leaves loosening at gutters, foxing (heavy in places).
Provenance: Ipswich Literary Institution (inscription in margin of main title, volume I); The Max and Peter Allen Collection.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. William Tayler, educated at Charterhouse, arrived in Bengal in 1829, where he served in various capacities for the East India Company. "A keen amateur dramatist and skillful 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). Abbey Travel 465; Colas 2858.

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The provenance of this lot is from the Max and Peter Allen collection, but not from the Ipswich Institution.

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