The Oriental Annual; Containing a Series of Tales, Legends, & Historical Romances, Thomas Bacon, 1840

A good copy of this uncommon title of British India interest, in its original Publisher's cloth binding.

The Oriental Annual; Containing a Series of Tales, Legends, & Historical Romances, by Thomas Bacon, Esq., F.S.A., With Engravings by W. and E. Finden, from Sketches by the Author; and Captain Meadows Taylor.

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Published by Charles Tilt, London, 1840. First edition.

A good brown morocco leather hardback with blind embossed snakes cover decoration and gilt elephant with manned howdah. Gilt title to spine. Rubbing and bumping to extremities. Some cracking to gutter after first and last free endpapers, but all still bound. Previous owner's name to first free endpaper.

Text is clean and bright. The plates are of high quality, but have foxed marginal offsetting and spotting verso. Gilt edges to text block.

An interesting and scarce original volume.

Text in English.

Half title + guarded portrait frontispiece + vignette title + Title + (2) + 244pp + 16 Additional Plates with plain paper guards (all as called for).

Dimensions: Approx 202mm high x 135mm wide x 328mm deep.

Weight: Approximately 504g (unpacked).