India. H[ogarth] (T.B., RA), The Griffinage of the Hon. Newm...

Hammer

£80

India. H[ogarth] (T.B., RA), The Griffinage of the Hon. Newman Strange. An Indian Story, In Twenty-one Episodes [...] Photographed from the Original Drawings by J. Hogarth, Jun. London: J. Hogarth, Dec. 20, 1862, half-title, 21 letterpress leaves with accompanying mounted albumen print photographs of pen-and-ink drawings, each 16 x 22cm, of which No. XXI's leaf has a stable lower-margin 3cm vertical tear and certainly not affecting the image, a few extant tissue-guards, some light marginal soiling, an occasional foxed spot, recto gutter split with some light movement, original publisher's cloth, upper-cover lettered in gilt, the binding worn, stained, and with some losses, recto and verso upper-joints starting to split, minor mildew to pastedowns, fragmentary ffep, the margin of the recto pastedown and the corresponding, and a trifle tatty, half-title with very minor worm trails, oblong folio (26.5 x 37.5cm)

Provenance: Captain Alfred Sackville Cresswell (1878-1915), of Beacon Hall, Benenden, Kent; verso of frontispiece with his ink stamp.