Drawing room scrap - book. 1834. (Inde)

First edition, illustrated with 36 steel plates, printed on heavy paper. Text on tinted vellum.
Publisher's binding. Half wine-colored morocco. Spine richly decorated with two large romantic stamps within frames. Date at foot. Wine-colored cloth boards stamped with a large blind plate of rinceaux and foliage. Boards slightly faded. Occasional light foxing to margins of some engravings. Handsome copy.
Poetic anthology of this collection devoted half to India with 18 engravings of views, ruins, villages, tombs, by Allom, Purser, Prout. The following 18 engravings represent England, some portraits. Bookplate of M. and H. Hocquette. Romantic books.