细节
GEORGE ABBOTT
Views of the Forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire. London: Graf, Engelmann, Coindet & Co. for J.M.Richardson, 1827.
Oblong 2° (332 x 488mm). 1p. subscriber's list noting 84 copies, 40 for the East India Company. Lithographic title and dedication, 11 plates on india paper mounted, all by Graf, Engelmann [etc] after Abbott, extra-illustrated with a single letterpress leaf mounted on front free endpaper A Short Account of the Capture of the Forts... Description of the plates.... (Title, dedication and margins of mounts spotted.) Contemporary blue half morocco gilt, title label on upper cover (lightly rubbed and soiled). Provenance: St.Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y. (ink stamp on free endpaper dated 1894, noting bequest by the Rev. Patrick Brady, bookplate of Archbishop Corrigan Memorial Library).
Views of the Forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire. London: Graf, Engelmann, Coindet & Co. for J.M.Richardson, 1827.
Oblong 2° (332 x 488mm). 1p. subscriber's list noting 84 copies, 40 for the East India Company. Lithographic title and dedication, 11 plates on india paper mounted, all by Graf, Engelmann [etc] after Abbott, extra-illustrated with a single letterpress leaf mounted on front free endpaper A Short Account of the Capture of the Forts... Description of the plates.... (Title, dedication and margins of mounts spotted.) Contemporary blue half morocco gilt, title label on upper cover (lightly rubbed and soiled). Provenance: St.Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y. (ink stamp on free endpaper dated 1894, noting bequest by the Rev. Patrick Brady, bookplate of Archbishop Corrigan Memorial Library).