WILLIAM HODGES (1744-1797) Choix de Vues de L'Inde... Select Views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783 . London: printed for the author, sold by J. Edwards, [1785-1788]. Large 2° (587 x 455mm). Letterpress title and dedication leaf in French and English, contents leaf in English, 41 leaves of parallel text in French and English. 48 aquatints printed in bistre and coloured by hand, by and after Hodges, folding engraved hand-coloured map by John Cary. (Small neat repairs to map, plates 26, 31 and 46 with neat repairs to splits along platemarks, occasional light spotting.) Modern brown half morocco gilt, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat decoration of a single centrally-placed lotus blossom tool, g.e., slipcase. AN ATTRACTIVE COLOURED COPY OF THE SINGLE VOLUME ISSUE OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK: THE FIRST SUBSTANTIAL SERIES OF AQUATINT VIEWS OF INDIA EVER PUBLISHED. Hodges, who had accompanied Cook on his second voyage to the South Seas, was one of the earliest English artists to bring back views of India. Having worked in India for nearly six years, under the patronage of the Governor-General Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Hodges experienced at first hand one of the most important periods in the establishment of British supremacy in India. Returning with his drawings to England in 1784, Hodges set about transforming the views into aquatints, publishing the Select Views in parts from 1785 to 1788. Its appearance would have caused a sensation, as nothing of the scenery of India on this scale had been seen before. The publishing history of this work is uncertain, but two editions are recorded. The first is normally found in two volumes, includes a separate contents leaf for each volume and only 14 leaves of text. The second is as the present copy. Their publication dates seem to have been more or less simultaneous but Abbey gives precedence to the two-volume edition. Abbey Travel II, 416; cf. Brunet III, 242; cf. Lowndes II, p.1079; cf. Tooley 264.
WILLIAM HODGES (1744-1797) Choix de Vues de L'Inde... Select Views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783 . London: printed for the author, sold by J. Edwards, [1785-1788]. Large 2° (587 x 455mm). Letterpress title and dedication leaf in French and English, contents leaf in English, 41 leaves of parallel text in French and English. 48 aquatints printed in bistre and coloured by hand, by and after Hodges, folding engraved hand-coloured map by John Cary. (Small neat repairs to map, plates 26, 31 and 46 with neat repairs to splits along platemarks, occasional light spotting.) Modern brown half morocco gilt, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat decoration of a single centrally-placed lotus blossom tool, g.e., slipcase. AN ATTRACTIVE COLOURED COPY OF THE SINGLE VOLUME ISSUE OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK: THE FIRST SUBSTANTIAL SERIES OF AQUATINT VIEWS OF INDIA EVER PUBLISHED. Hodges, who had accompanied Cook on his second voyage to the South Seas, was one of the earliest English artists to bring back views of India. Having worked in India for nearly six years, under the patronage of the Governor-General Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Hodges experienced at first hand one of the most important periods in the establishment of British supremacy in India. Returning with his drawings to England in 1784, Hodges set about transforming the views into aquatints, publishing the Select Views in parts from 1785 to 1788. Its appearance would have caused a sensation, as nothing of the scenery of India on this scale had been seen before. The publishing history of this work is uncertain, but two editions are recorded. The first is normally found in two volumes, includes a separate contents leaf for each volume and only 14 leaves of text. The second is as the present copy. Their publication dates seem to have been more or less simultaneous but Abbey gives precedence to the two-volume edition. Abbey Travel II, 416; cf. Brunet III, 242; cf. Lowndes II, p.1079; cf. Tooley 264.
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