An Illustrated Journey Round the World

This is an illustrated travel record drawn from the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century journeys of the painters Thomas, William, and Samuel Daniell. Their routes run from England toward China and through India, Ceylon, and southern Africa, with views of rivers, temples, forts, towns, and landscape made on the spot or worked up afterward as plates. The text follows the voyages and the making of those views rather than offering a political history of the places visited. The book is a pictorial travel narrative: a record of what the Daniells saw and drew on a long circuit of Asian and African waters.

Three-quarter bound in maroon buckram with pictorial vegetable parchment cover. Pictorial front to black slipcase. (landscape format).