DAVID ROBERTS (1796-1864) Egypt and Nubia. From Drawings made on the spot ... with historical descriptions by William Brockedon . London: F.G. Moon, 1846-49. 3 volumes, 2° (602 x 445mm). 3 tinted lithographic titles, 61 plates and 60 illustrations, all lithographed by L. Haghe after Roberts, engraved map. (Vol. I with spotting to three text leaves affecting two lithographic illustrations and one plate with minor marginal spotting, lithographic title to vol. II with volume number erased.) Contemporary olive morocco, Harewood arms in gilt on sides within wide gilt borders composed of an outer frame of a semi-circles roll and double fillets, and an inner frame of two double fillets sandwiching a floral roll with acorns, and an inner foliate roll with large corner ornaments, spines gilt with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco gilt lettering-pieces in second and fourth compartments, the others with large floral centrepieces surrounded by gilt foliate tools, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (extremities faintly rubbed, more heavily to vol. III). FINE COPY IN AN EXTREMELY HANDSOME ARMORIAL BINDING OF THE FIRST EDITION of the second, climactic part of Roberts's Holy Land . First appearing in twenty numbers, most containing six plates, it successfully brought to a conclusion 'one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing and ... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph' (Abbey Travel II, p.341). Abbey Travel 272; Lipperheide 1591; Tooley 402. (3)
DAVID ROBERTS (1796-1864) Egypt and Nubia. From Drawings made on the spot ... with historical descriptions by William Brockedon . London: F.G. Moon, 1846-49. 3 volumes, 2° (602 x 445mm). 3 tinted lithographic titles, 61 plates and 60 illustrations, all lithographed by L. Haghe after Roberts, engraved map. (Vol. I with spotting to three text leaves affecting two lithographic illustrations and one plate with minor marginal spotting, lithographic title to vol. II with volume number erased.) Contemporary olive morocco, Harewood arms in gilt on sides within wide gilt borders composed of an outer frame of a semi-circles roll and double fillets, and an inner frame of two double fillets sandwiching a floral roll with acorns, and an inner foliate roll with large corner ornaments, spines gilt with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco gilt lettering-pieces in second and fourth compartments, the others with large floral centrepieces surrounded by gilt foliate tools, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (extremities faintly rubbed, more heavily to vol. III). FINE COPY IN AN EXTREMELY HANDSOME ARMORIAL BINDING OF THE FIRST EDITION of the second, climactic part of Roberts's Holy Land . First appearing in twenty numbers, most containing six plates, it successfully brought to a conclusion 'one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing and ... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph' (Abbey Travel II, p.341). Abbey Travel 272; Lipperheide 1591; Tooley 402. (3)
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