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Published by White Star Publishers, Italy, 2000
ISBN 10: 8880955128ISBN 13: 9788880955122
Seller: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Large format hardcover, no dustjacket, Please Note: this is Volume 1 only, 319 pages, only one flaw to this clean, attractive copy: the gold spine-title has faded, 125 beautiful color plates covering Jerusalem and Galilee, Jordan and Bethlehem, Iduma and Petra, brown cloth binding with a mounted color illustration on the front cover; 319 pages.
Published by London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1889
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. thick folio, approx. 400 pp., 8 page catalogue at the back, 120 tinted lithographs; original gilt and maroon stamped blue cloth, a.e.g., covers lightly smudged, edges rubbed, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin, London, 1889
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Three parts in one, preceded by the original 4-volume folio edition published privately in the 1840s and the quarto editions that followed in the 1850s. 120 hand-colored lithographs after Roberts' drawings, with accompanying text by Reverend George Croly. Divided into 3 sections: I. Jerusalem and Galilee, II. Bethlehem, and III. Idumea and Petra. Near Fine in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and page edges. Spine lightly toned, contemporary gift inscription on the half-title page. A lovely copy of this book of lithographic reproductions of Roberts' original drawings, with accompanying text by Reverend George Croly.
Published by Day & Son, London, 1856
First Edition
1st quarto edition. 6 vols. in 3. Complete with 2 maps, 242 tinted litho plates (including a portrait of Roberts) and 6 tinted litho title-pages. Original gilt armorial blue cloth binding. 29 cm. This set was recently resewn and recased with hinges reinforced with modern dark binder's tape. All edges gilt. Joints rubbed with some loss of color. The resewing has tightened the volumes so they do not lay flat when opened. All tissue guards present, except between the Roberts portrait and the first tinted litho title-page and preceding the vignette title-page in Vol. 3. Foxing, present on only a minority of leaves, is mostly modest and mostly confined to the margins. Heaviest foxing is on the Roberts portrait frontis -- foxing mostly confined to the margins on the portrait of Roberts but substantial and uniform on the blank side) and on the unprotected vignette title-page in Vol. 3. The yellow endpapers are so clean that it is hard not to wonder if they are modern replacements. Small binder's ticket (Mehling Bookbindery) in lower left corner on rear pastedowns. Small chip on outer margin of the Roberts portrait. A couple of short tears mended with Filmoplast (an adhesive paper mending tape). Two plates identified as frontises on the plate lists are found a few pages into the text rather than facing those title-pages. An appealing set.
Published by Day & Son 1855-56, London, 1855
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Second (First Small Folio) Edition. 285 x 195 mm. (11 1/8 x 7 3/8"). Six volumes bound in three. FINE 20TH CENTURY CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ZAEHNSDORF for Asprey & Co. (stamp-signed on front turn-in), boards with simple gilt-rule border, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, gilt titling, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 250 FINE TINTED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES, MOSTLY OF VIEWS OF THE HOLY LAND, by Louis Haghe after Roberts (a few with hand coloring), including engraved titles, two engraved maps, and an engraved portrait of Roberts. Abbey, "Travel" 385, 388, and 272; Blackmer 1432; Tobler, p. 229. â Text leaves with faint overall darkening (due to paper quality), isolated small patches of foxing or minor smudges to margin of plates, otherwise AN ESPECIALLY FINE SET, the text entirely clean, smooth, and fresh, the bindings unworn, and THE IMAGES VERY CLEAN, RICH, AND ENTIRELY WITHOUT FOXING. This is a remarkably clean and bright copy, in a very pleasing binding, of the small folio edition of one of the great travel books from the Victorian heyday of the genre. Roberts (1796-1864) started out painting houses and then theatrical scenery, but soon developed a reputation for paintings and lithographs of exotic scenery. His "Holy Land" is one of the most famous English illustrated books of the century. Its success was due in part to its lavishness, but certainly also to "Roberts' great accuracy as a draughtsman, his strong sense of country and place [and] . . . his love of architecture." (Houfe) Abbey says that "Haghe's skillful and delicate lithography, and his faithful interpretation of Roberts's draughtsmanship and dramatic sense, combine in what are undoubtedly remarkable examples of tinted lithographic work. . . . one feels that the colossal subjects and broad vistas were ideally suited to Roberts's talent, trained as he was in theatrical scene-painting." Ours is an especially appealing copy of a work often disfigured with foxing.