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[MERIGOT (James)]: A SELECT COLLECTION OF VIEWS AND RUINS IN ROME AND ITS VICINITY, London, 1797-99.
FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in one vol., 4to (285 x 225mm.), paper watermarked Whatman 1794, text and indices in French and English, hand-tinted aquatint frontispiece (with 'Ruines de Rome' enclosed by an arch), 61 aquatint plates (most tinted by hand) (occasional light spotting), contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled and tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., armorial bookplate of F.M.Cathcart (extremities very slightly rubbed).
A fine copy. cf. Abbey Travel 178 (the circa 1819 edition).
FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in one vol., 4to (285 x 225mm.), paper watermarked Whatman 1794, text and indices in French and English, hand-tinted aquatint frontispiece (with 'Ruines de Rome' enclosed by an arch), 61 aquatint plates (most tinted by hand) (occasional light spotting), contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled and tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., armorial bookplate of F.M.Cathcart (extremities very slightly rubbed).
A fine copy. cf. Abbey Travel 178 (the circa 1819 edition).