MOSES, Henry (1782-1870). A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Parerae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c. from Various Museums and Collections, Engraved on 170 Plates [sic]. London: J. Taylor, 1814.

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MOSES, Henry (1782-1870). A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Parerae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c. from Various Museums and Collections, Engraved on 170 Plates [sic]. London: J. Taylor, 1814.

8o (216 x 179 mm). Engraved title and 116 engraved plates, some hand-colored. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, decorated in gilt and blind, edges gilt (some light rubbing).

FIRST EDITION of Moses's important illustrated reference, an excellent work of scholarship from the early 19th Century, said to have inspired Keats's great poem "Ode to a Grecian Urn."