The European in India
By: from a collection of drawings by Charles Doyley, Esq. ; engraved by J.H. Clark and C. Dubourg ; with a preface and copious descriptions, by Thomas Williamson. Accompanied with A brief history of ancient and modern India, from the earliest periods of antiquity to the termination of the late Mahratta War, by F.W. Blagdon.
Contributors: D'Oyly, Charles, 1781-1845, artist.; Dubourg, Matthew, etcher.; Williamson, Thomas.; Blagdon, Francis William, 1778-1819.
Publisher: Published and sold by Edward Orme
Published: 1813
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Costume -- India.; Europeans -- India -- Social life and customs.; Tobacco use -- India.; Europeans -- India -- Tobacco use.; Smoking in art.; India -- Social life and customs.; India -- History.
Notes: Brunet, V, col. 1456
Abbey, J.R.  Travel, II, 435
Tooley, R.V.  Coloured plates (1979 ed.), 185
Colas, R.  Costume, 887
Illustrations: 20 prints : etching, aquatint, hand col. ; full-page.
"Plate x: A gentleman with his hookah-burdar, or pipe-bearer": text, p. [34-36] and plate x. "Plate xix: A native gentleman smoking a goorgoory, or hookah, in his private apartments, attended by his dancing girls": p. [55-57] and plate xix. Plate ix depicts a hookah-smoking European gentleman.
"A brief history of ancient and modern India," by F.W. Blagdon: p. [61]-149.
Includes index.