Hindostan,

A superb copy of this copiously illustrated work depicting India and the Himalayas. Places discussed and illustrated include: Malwa, Agra, Simla, Cawnpore, Rajpootana, Benares, the Ganges, Madura, the Deccan, Delhi, and Hyderabad.

Emma Roberts (c.1794-1840) was a jobbing writer who was largely forced to India by the posting of her brother-in-law to Bengal. She loved the country but hated the isolated Anglo-Indian society, writing 'there cannot be a more wretched situation than that of a young woman in India who has been induced to follow the fortunes of her married sister under the delusive expectation that she will exchange the privations of limited means in England for the far-famed luxuries of the East.'

2 volumes in 1, 4to (28.5 x 23 cm); 2 frontispieces, 2 additional engraved titles, 95 engraved plates after Turner, Stanfield, and others, one or two spots to margins only, plates clean and fresh; contemporary full red morocco, boards elaborately framed in gilt with blind-blocked panels, spine lettered in gilt in six richly gilt and blind-blocked compartments, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, a fine and luxurious copy; 104, 128pp.

Robinson Wayward Women, 191.