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ROBERTS, DAVID. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly and William Brockedon. London: F.G. Moon, 1846-49.
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ROBERTS, DAVID. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly and William Brockedon. London: F.G. Moon, 1846-49.
6 volumes, large folio, 601 x 425 mm. (23 5/8 x 16½ in.). Uncolored lithographic portrait of Roberts by C. Baugniet on india paper mounted on card, 4 pp. list of subscribers, 2 engraved maps, 6 lithographic titles with hand-colored vignettes, and 241 LITHOGRAPHED PLATES BY LOUIS HAGHE AFTER DAVID ROBERTS, THE PLATES MOUNTED ON CARD, ALL FINELY COLORED AND FINISHED BY HAND, on linen guards throughout. (Preliminaries loose in first vol., some spotting and wrinkling on first title, 14 text leaves split along gutter margin and detached, some with margins heavily frayed or torn, approximately 24 plates with hard creases, occasional light spotting affecting approximately 75 plates [including titles], some plates cockled, some minor marginal spotting or finger soiling, a few margins bumped.) Contemporary deep purple morocco gilt, covers with broad gilt panel border composed of gilt fillets of varying widths and numbers on both sides of a swirling floral roll-tool border, surrounding an ornately tooled dentelle-style inner border, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments, a repeated gilt dentelle panel in the rest, board edges with a floral gilt roll, turn-ins with a broad floral gilt roll between triple gilt fillets, g.e. (Some rubbing and wear to spine ends and along edges, some corners bumped, most covers with scuffs or scratches on central panels, some gilding rubbed from bottom edges). Housed in a contemporary custom-made two-door glass front standing cabinet of olive wood (see provenance note).
Provenance: Rev. Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe (original subscriber), with his pencil identifications on some plate mounts and marginalia in some text margins. Grimashawe (1778-1850), author of religious works and biographies (including Life and Works of William Cowper [1835]), was vicar of Biddenham in Bedfordshire from 1808 to 1850. He held the rectory of Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, from 1809 to 1843. This set is housed in a two-door glass front standing cabinet of olive wood, the top of which is inlaid with cross-sections from a branch from the Garden of Gethsemane. A mounted brass plaque on the top reads: "...by the Revd. Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, Rector Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire." The set was presented to his son, Charles Livius Grimshawe, in 1850, pencil inscription on front free endpaper in the first volume of The Holy Land: "The Revd. Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe to his son Charles Irvins Grimshawe 1850."
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ROBERTS'S MONUMENTAL WORK ON THE MIDDLE-EAST, regarded as "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and...the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey, p. 341).
Abbey Travel 272 and 385; Tooley 401-2. (6)
6 volumes, large folio, 601 x 425 mm. (23 5/8 x 16½ in.). Uncolored lithographic portrait of Roberts by C. Baugniet on india paper mounted on card, 4 pp. list of subscribers, 2 engraved maps, 6 lithographic titles with hand-colored vignettes, and 241 LITHOGRAPHED PLATES BY LOUIS HAGHE AFTER DAVID ROBERTS, THE PLATES MOUNTED ON CARD, ALL FINELY COLORED AND FINISHED BY HAND, on linen guards throughout. (Preliminaries loose in first vol., some spotting and wrinkling on first title, 14 text leaves split along gutter margin and detached, some with margins heavily frayed or torn, approximately 24 plates with hard creases, occasional light spotting affecting approximately 75 plates [including titles], some plates cockled, some minor marginal spotting or finger soiling, a few margins bumped.) Contemporary deep purple morocco gilt, covers with broad gilt panel border composed of gilt fillets of varying widths and numbers on both sides of a swirling floral roll-tool border, surrounding an ornately tooled dentelle-style inner border, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments, a repeated gilt dentelle panel in the rest, board edges with a floral gilt roll, turn-ins with a broad floral gilt roll between triple gilt fillets, g.e. (Some rubbing and wear to spine ends and along edges, some corners bumped, most covers with scuffs or scratches on central panels, some gilding rubbed from bottom edges). Housed in a contemporary custom-made two-door glass front standing cabinet of olive wood (see provenance note).
Provenance: Rev. Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe (original subscriber), with his pencil identifications on some plate mounts and marginalia in some text margins. Grimashawe (1778-1850), author of religious works and biographies (including Life and Works of William Cowper [1835]), was vicar of Biddenham in Bedfordshire from 1808 to 1850. He held the rectory of Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, from 1809 to 1843. This set is housed in a two-door glass front standing cabinet of olive wood, the top of which is inlaid with cross-sections from a branch from the Garden of Gethsemane. A mounted brass plaque on the top reads: "...by the Revd. Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, Rector Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire." The set was presented to his son, Charles Livius Grimshawe, in 1850, pencil inscription on front free endpaper in the first volume of The Holy Land: "The Revd. Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe to his son Charles Irvins Grimshawe 1850."
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ROBERTS'S MONUMENTAL WORK ON THE MIDDLE-EAST, regarded as "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and...the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey, p. 341).
Abbey Travel 272 and 385; Tooley 401-2. (6)