Excerpt from The Bengal Annual: A Literary Keepsake for 1830There being no professional engravers in India, the embellishments of the volume are the friendly contributions of Amateurs - and are among their first efforts. It will be acknowledged, how ever, that though hasty and unpretending pro. ductions, they are very far from deficient in taste and spirit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.