Works in the Press, or Recently Published, by Smith, Elder, and Co.
Views in India.
SCENERY, COSTUMES, and ARCHITECTURE, chiefly on the Western Side of India. By Captain Robert Melville Grindlay, of the East India Company’s Army, Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and of the Society of Arts, &c.
Publishing in Parts, each containing Six Plates, with descriptive letter-press. Atlas 4to. price £2: 2s.
From the extreme delicacy of the aquatint Engravings of this Work, a limited number of Impressions only can be taken from them.
“This is a work, which bids fair not merely to establish the fame of Capt. Grindlay, but to do honour to the British arts; and if it meets with but small encouragement, we shall think it disreputable to the public taste, the improvement of which has, tardily, become an object of some solicitude to the state.”
—Asiatic Journal.
“In our number for June last, we introduced to our readers, by a brief notice, the first part of the beautiful Work issued to the world under the above title. In the design and execution of that, we perceived sufficient excellence to justify our predicting its complete success: and we are gratified to find, that high as our expectations of general approbation for this undertaking undoubtedly were, they have been realized to their utmost extent.”
—Oriental Herald.
“The fidelity of the representations, in the portion now under our eye, is very striking; and all the plates are most acceptable, as illustrating an extremely interesting and important country, hitherto little known either by literary or graphic means. The variety of these views, and the handsome style in which they are executed, will, together with the appropriate literary descriptions, recommend this publication not only to persons connected with India, but to the British public generally, and collectors in the arts.”
—Literary Gazette.
The adventures of NAUFRAGUS, written by himself; giving a faithful Account of his Voyages, Shipwreck, and Travels, from his first outset as a Midshipman in the E. I. Company’s Service, till he became a Commander in the Indian Seas: including a general description of India, of the Hindoo superstitious Idolatry and Sacrifices, of the Suttee, or Immolation of Hindoo Widows, &c. &c.
“The Author, so far as we can collect from his Book, appears to be endowed with a highly sensitive temperament, and with talents of no mean order. We have been pleased with the style of his narrative, for its natural fluency and grace, warmed as it is throughout with a spirit of romance, which makes its way readily to the Heart.”—Monthly Review, July, 1827.
Views of Calcutta.
A series of Twenty-four interesting VIEWS of CALCUTTA and its ENVIRONS, after correct and beautifully finished Drawings, executed from Sketches taken on the spot, by James Baillie Fraser, Esq., Author of ‘A Journey into Khorasan,’ ‘Views in the Himala Mountains,’ &c. &c.
Price of the Series, neatly half-bound, with engraved Frontispiece, £16: 16s., single Plates, 14s.
Subscribers to the First Part of the Series may have their sets completed at 40s. each Number, on application to the Publishers.
Elgin Cathedral.
A series of FIVE VIEWS of the VENERABLE and MAGNIFICENT RUINS of this justly celebrated CATHEDRAL, from accurate Drawings taken by Mr. William Clark, an Artist, resident at Elgin.
This most splendid Edifice, which has for Centuries past called forth the admiration of the Artist, the Antiquary, and the Connoisseur, is too well known to require any eulogium; and the interesting Views now offered to the public, comprehend every Arch and object worthy of notice in the whole of its extensive range. The Engravings are executed in the most finished style of Aquatinta, and printed in the Bistre Tint, in imitation of the Original Drawings.
To render them still more interesting and complete, they are accompanied by a most accurate and neatly engraved Ground Plan of the Cathedral, exhibiting the whole Range of its Foundations, taken expressly for the Work, by Mr. Robertson, Architect.
Price Two Guineas and a Half, in a Cover, with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Cathedral, from its erection in 1224. A very limited number of Proofs have been taken off on India paper, price Four Guineas.
Speedily will be published, as a companion to Coleridge’s “Six Months in the West Indies,” and uniformly printed with that deservedly popular work, a volume, entitled,
SKETCHES and RECOLLECTIONS of the WEST INDIES; with Notices of the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants, State of the Slave Population, &c.; and embracing an account of the Attack on Dominica by the French Squadron from Rochefort, in 1805.
By a Resident.
Drawn from actual and long continued observation, this work will be found to contain the most complete view that has yet appeared of every thing connected with our West Indian Colonies.
Note
Often in the text, possessive pronouns appear with an apostrophe. This convention has been retained.