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product of the statistical methods of the later scottish enlightenment [...] elphinstone’s subsequent Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (published 1815) continued to inform British policy on the north-western frontier until the 1840s. he himself was unable to offer much to the rulers of the region, but he did sketch out a plan by which he hoped an extension of the British alliance could stabilize the whole tract beyond the river Jumna and up the indus valley’.
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul was well-received by the author’s contemporaries, and Dibdin described it as ‘a work which places its author in the first rank of historians and travellers in the east’, recommending it ‘most earnestly [...] to every library of any pretension to a collection of Voyages and travels’ (The Library Companion (london: 1824), p. 416); a second edition (in two volumes) was published in 1818, and further revisions appeared in 1839 and 1842. the work is also regarded for its hand-coloured illustrations, and abbey notes that ‘the plates are of excellent quality’. numbers V- Viii are after captain robert Melville grindlay — the author and co-illustrator of Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India (london: 1826) — who ‘drew them from afghans just arrived from their own country’ (p. viii) and the remainder are after indian artists. although tooley suggests that *K5 (pp. ‘71*-*72’) should follow M1, its placement after K4 (p. 72) found here is clearly correct.
Abbey, Travel, 504; Brunet II, col. 966; Colas 960; Ghani p 116; Lowndes p. 734 (‘An interesting and curious work’); Prideaux pp. 249 (‘an able and interesting account of a land but little known’) and 335; Tooley 209.
107. erte [romain de tirtoff]. russian Fairy tale. original serigraph from the twenties remembered again suite, number 209 of 300, signed, 1978. © sevenarts ltd. 510 x 370 mm.
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108. [eton]. ainGer, H.C. eton. an anthology in Prose and Verse. Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1915].
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4to, original cloth gilt, boards centrally stamped with gilt arms of eton enclosed in eton blue borders all in gilt-ruled fillets, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; pp. xix, 232; coloured frontispiece mounted at large retaining captioned tissue guard, 29 coloured plates mounted at large retaining tissue guards; a very good copy; inscribed ‘on his leaving eton’ to the future collector and historian of British sculpture rupert Forbes gunnis (1899-1965) from his tutor arthur c.g. heygate (1862-1935) who was a master at eton between 1887-1918 and whose daughter elizabeth wrote A Girl at Eton about her life there.
First edition. a lavish compilation of history, prose and poems about eton and the school life dedicated to a.J. Balfour and the earl of rosebery, the two eton Prime Ministers.
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