Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant ... / the whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Thomas Williamson ; the drawings by Samuel Howett [sic] ... ; engraved ... under the direction of Edward Orme.

Originally issued in 20 parts, 1805-1807.
Added color half-t.p., probably color stencil or a combination of woodblock and stencil, with large vignette of a tiger and title "Wild sports of the East".
Illustrated with 40 hand colored aquatints, 37 by H. Merke, two by J.R. Hamble, one by Thomas Vivarès, after drawings executed by Howett from original designs by Thomas Williamson; with parallel caption text in English and French.
"The printing process of the frontispiece and part wrappers, which show a tiger lying on a rock ... appears to be in oil colour ... Register marks in the form of blobs of colour appear on the right and left at the foot of the image. The process might possibly have been a stencil one, and the effect is similar to modern silk-screen work."--Abbey.
An early issue, possibly a subscriber's copy, with plate 31 in the 1st state, with caption reading "Hunting jackalls". Cf. Abbey & Tooley.