SOLVYNS, Baltazar (1760-1824)

Lot 142
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 142 | SOLVYNS, Baltazar (1760-1824)
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
SOLVYNS, Baltazar (1760-1824)

The costume of indostan, elucidated by sixty coloured engravings; with descriptions in english and french, taken in the years 1798 and 1799. London: Edward Orme, [n. d. but c. 1804, watermarked 1832].

A collection of 60 hand-coloured plates engraved after Solvyn's depictions of Bengal, India. Derived from Solvyns's originals, Edward Orme made watercolour copies for the engravers, Scott or Vivares after Solvyns. These copies render Solvyns's original hand-etched idiosyncratic plates into an formalised format. This could be read to have muted the character of Solvyns's hand, however this act of formalisation only follows suit, as Solvyns himself published an improvement on his original work in Paris, 1808-12, containing 288 plates. Both Solvyns's originals and Orme's copies are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Abbey Travel 429 cites 1807 edition; Bobins I, 270; Brunet V, 433; Colas 2765; Tooley 461.



Folio (355 x 255mm). Letterpress title with title, text and dedication in English and French, 60 engraved, contemporary hand-coloured plates by Scott or Vivares after Solvyns (plates dated 1804 but watermarked 1832), each accompanied by leaf of explanatory text, recto English, verso French (pencil mark across title page verso, occasional light spotting and browning mainly to text leaves, some faint finger-soiling, plates lightly offset onto text, some plates watermarked 'J. Whatman 1832'). Full black calf gilt (minor marking to cover and worn corners), gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Coombs Bookseller, Worcester.





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