A Letter from India. Edited by Nicolas Barker – ROXBURGHE CLUB 2020
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A Letter from India. Edited by Nicolas Barker – ROXBURGHE CLUB (IMPRESS-PUBLISHING) 2020
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 71 of 150 copies
Letter written on 20 January 1824 by Reginald Heber.
Letterpress printed by Stanley Lane, Gloucester.
Letter reproduced in facsimile, accompanied by a page by page transcript of the text.
Supplemented by Heber’s water-colour drawings on the endpapers.
Frontispiece is a fine mezzotint after the portrait by Thomas Phillips.
Quarter bound by Smith Settle in brown cloth with yellow Fedrigoni Tintoretto Ceylon Curry paper covers blocked in black with an image.
No slipcase or dust-jacket.
69 pages
29.6x22cm.
£125
The biography of Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta from 1824 until his death while on tour of southern India in 1826, written by Nicolas Barker, within which is a transcribed facsimile of a 12 page letter written by Heber to a grand-niece, Harriet Wrightson, that describes his initial impressions, and first few weeks in India. The letter has several good quality illustrated headers as Heber was a good amateur artist. An interesting insight into India of the early 19th. century.
Front endpaper
Rear endpaper
The Roxburghe Club was founded in 1812 and is the oldest and most exclusive society of bibliophiles in the world. Its membership is limited to 40, chosen from among those with distinguished libraries or collections, or with a scholarly interest in books. Many of the members are the owners of the libraries you drool over when seen in photos.
Each member is expected, upon election to the club, to produce a book at his or her own expense for presentation to the other members. The subject of such books lies entirely at the discretion of the individual member, providing that it lies within the normal scope of the Club’s publications. These books are usually lavishly bound and superbly printed facsimiles of a book in the member’s collection, or borrowed from a library or institution, or new editions of a classic work. Each presentation copy has the name of the member to whom it is presented in red on the list of members that appears at the beginning of each book. Since its foundation, almost 300 volumes have been published on a wide range of subjects and scholarship. The club itself from time to time, has also published books for presentation to the members.
Only 42 copies of each of these books was ever printed (40 for members, one for the club archive and one extra for the commissioning member). After 159 years of tradition, in 1981, it was decided to print a small number of extra copies of the books for sale to members of the public. These books for the public are issued in cloth covers rather than the half leather used for the members’ copies.
The book reviewed here is one of these extra copies.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 71 of 150 copies
Letter written on 20 January 1824 by Reginald Heber.
Letterpress printed by Stanley Lane, Gloucester.
Letter reproduced in facsimile, accompanied by a page by page transcript of the text.
Supplemented by Heber’s water-colour drawings on the endpapers.
Frontispiece is a fine mezzotint after the portrait by Thomas Phillips.
Quarter bound by Smith Settle in brown cloth with yellow Fedrigoni Tintoretto Ceylon Curry paper covers blocked in black with an image.
No slipcase or dust-jacket.
69 pages
29.6x22cm.
£125
The biography of Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta from 1824 until his death while on tour of southern India in 1826, written by Nicolas Barker, within which is a transcribed facsimile of a 12 page letter written by Heber to a grand-niece, Harriet Wrightson, that describes his initial impressions, and first few weeks in India. The letter has several good quality illustrated headers as Heber was a good amateur artist. An interesting insight into India of the early 19th. century.
Front endpaper
Rear endpaper
The Roxburghe Club was founded in 1812 and is the oldest and most exclusive society of bibliophiles in the world. Its membership is limited to 40, chosen from among those with distinguished libraries or collections, or with a scholarly interest in books. Many of the members are the owners of the libraries you drool over when seen in photos.
Each member is expected, upon election to the club, to produce a book at his or her own expense for presentation to the other members. The subject of such books lies entirely at the discretion of the individual member, providing that it lies within the normal scope of the Club’s publications. These books are usually lavishly bound and superbly printed facsimiles of a book in the member’s collection, or borrowed from a library or institution, or new editions of a classic work. Each presentation copy has the name of the member to whom it is presented in red on the list of members that appears at the beginning of each book. Since its foundation, almost 300 volumes have been published on a wide range of subjects and scholarship. The club itself from time to time, has also published books for presentation to the members.
Only 42 copies of each of these books was ever printed (40 for members, one for the club archive and one extra for the commissioning member). After 159 years of tradition, in 1981, it was decided to print a small number of extra copies of the books for sale to members of the public. These books for the public are issued in cloth covers rather than the half leather used for the members’ copies.
The book reviewed here is one of these extra copies.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
