ADVERTISEMENT. 
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The favour with which the preceding volumes of the 
Oriental Annual have been received has induced 
the proprietors to spare no expense to render it still 
more worthy of public approbation. In the present 
volume an attempt has been made, by combining the 
efforts of several of the most distinguished artists of 
the day, to give greater variety to the illustrations 
than was attainable by the employment of a single 
pencil. It is unnecessary to do more than allude to 
the beauty of the drawings finished by Clarkson 
Stanfield, R. A., David Roberts, T. Creswick, 
T. C. Dibdin, &c. &c., from the orginal sketches 
of the Author, or to the admirable manner in which 
they have been engraved under the skilful superin- 
tendence of Messrs. William and Edward Finden. 
With the same view to variety, the literary portion 
of the work has been entrusted to Thomas Bacon, 
Esq., F.S.A., whose delightful volumes, entitled “ First 
Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan,” 
with all their freshness of remark and buoyancy of 
feeling, received such warm commendation from the 
best judges in the literary world. 
Fleet Street, Sept. S, 1838. 
