The Publisher begs respectfully to announce that he has still 
on Sale a few complete Sets of the three former volumes of 
THE 
ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
The object of the Proprietor has been to make this Work 
something beyond a mere elegant trifle ; it will be found to 
contain matters of history, and views of society, which, he 
trusts, will render it a book of the library as well as of the 
drawing-room table. 
THE FORMER VOLUMES ARE ILLUSTRATED IN THE SAME STYLE AS 
THE PRESENT, AND ARE ALSO UNIFORMLY BOUND. 
A large paper edition , in royal 8 vo, with India-proof impres- 
sions of the plates , was printed, of which a very few perfect 
sets now remain, — price £2. 125. 6d. each volume. 
“ The two former volumes of this elegant yet solid Annual were 
chiefly devoted to the Presidencies of Madras and Bengal. The 
present volume (1836) nominally embraces Bombay, and completes 
the first series of a work which is unrivalled in its class for the 
permanent interest and instructive character of its matter, for the 
unity and completeness of its design, for the clearness and strength 
of its composition, as well as for the splendour of its illustrations 
and of its more mechanical adornments. In the present, as in the 
former publications, the matter of Mr. Caunter’s descriptive 
account is not a tour, but the impressions and the striking incidents 
of a tour, intermingled with individual portraiture and historical 
episodes. Hence, perhaps, the peculiar character of his Annual. 
It has the reality of a mere book of travels without its dryness, and 
some of the spirit of fiction without its untruth.” — Spectator , 
October 17 th, 1835. 
CHARLES TILT, FLEET STREET. 
