细节
WOOD, Robert (1717?-1771). The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart. [London]: 1753.
2° (542 x 366mm). 59 engraved plates, views and maps (one folding), 3 full-page engravings of inscriptions. (The folding plate with small tears at outer margin, some light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: William Edward Hope Vere (Craigie Hall, Linlithgow, bookplate and library label).
FIRST EDITION of a work which "was by all accounts a triumph such as no English architectural book had ever before achieved." (Harris.) Berlin Kat. 1884; Harris British Architectural Books and Writers 1556-1785 939.
2° (542 x 366mm). 59 engraved plates, views and maps (one folding), 3 full-page engravings of inscriptions. (The folding plate with small tears at outer margin, some light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: William Edward Hope Vere (Craigie Hall, Linlithgow, bookplate and library label).
FIRST EDITION of a work which "was by all accounts a triumph such as no English architectural book had ever before achieved." (Harris.) Berlin Kat. 1884; Harris British Architectural Books and Writers 1556-1785 939.