[Rarebooks] FS: Victorian Color Printing: SAKOONTALA, 1855: The most lavish of the Oriental illuminated books

[Charles Agvent]

KALIDASA. SAKOONTALA; OR, THE LOST RING; AN INDIAN DRAMA. Hertford:
Stephen  Austin  1855. First Edition. Small quarto (6-1/2"  x  8-1/2")
bound  in later 3/4 dark blue morocco. Translated from the Sanskrit by
Monier  Williams. Each page has a color-printed decorative border, and
there  are  a number of other color decorations in the text  including
full-page  plates.  Handsome book that McLean (VICTORIAN BOOK  DESIGN,
pp.  172-73) describes as "the most lavish of the Oriental illuminated
books....  The borders on ordinary pages are printed in four  colours:
there   is  a  title-page,  at  the   end  of  the  Introduction,   of
extraordinary  richness,  and numerous other decorations  and  borders
printed  in  colours....  Mr. Stephen Austin was able to  achieve,  by
letter  press,  results   indistinguishable  from  chromolithography."
Light rubbing to joints and corners. Near Fine                 $600.00

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