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ROBERTS, David (1796-1864, artist) and George CROLY (1780-1860). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1849.
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ROBERTS, David (1796-1864, artist) and George CROLY (1780-1860). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1849.
3 volumes bound in 4, 2o (607 x 446 mm). Mounted lithographic frontispiece portrait of Roberts on india paper by and after C. Baugniet, 4 hand-colored lithographic titles, 120 plates finely colored and finished by hand and mounted on card, all by L. Haghe after Roberts. (Minor offsetting to blank versos, minor staining to mounts, vol. II with staining to last few leaves, title vignette, 2 small plates in vol. I and plate 118 in vol. IV slightly cockled .) 19th-century black half morocco and cloth boards, upper covers lettered in gilt, spine in six compartments, edges gilt (light wear to joints and edges, small abrasion to upper cover of vol. III). Provenance: Elwes, coat-of-arms and initials (morocco label on upper covers).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FINEST AND RAREST HAND-COLORED ISSUE OF ROBERTS' MONUMENTAL WORK ON SYRIA, IDUMEA AND ARABIA, part of Roberts' Holy Land, but published separately. "One of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey p. 341). It is masterfully illustrated by Louis Haghe's lithography, of which Roberts wrote, "Haghe has not only surpassed himself, but all that has hitherto been done of a similar nature. He has rendered the views in a style clear, simple and unlaboured, with a masterly vigour and boldness which none but a painter like him could have transferred to stone."
The Holy Land was originally published in 3 states: tinted, with tinted proofs, and colored and mounted on card (as here). It was issued in 20 parts between January 1842 and the end of 1845 "containing all the plates listed [in Abbey] but not the map, and not in the same order. There were two title-pages only" (Abbey). This might explain why the above copy is bound without the map. Bound unusually, with 4 title-pages, the title to vol. I with the vignette Entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, repeated (with the numeral changed) in vol. IV, and with the title for vol. III (sometimes missing) is present. Bound without the two leaves of text Bethleham and Idumea. Abbey, Travel 385; Tooley 401. (4)
3 volumes bound in 4, 2o (607 x 446 mm). Mounted lithographic frontispiece portrait of Roberts on india paper by and after C. Baugniet, 4 hand-colored lithographic titles, 120 plates finely colored and finished by hand and mounted on card, all by L. Haghe after Roberts. (Minor offsetting to blank versos, minor staining to mounts, vol. II with staining to last few leaves, title vignette, 2 small plates in vol. I and plate 118 in vol. IV slightly cockled .) 19th-century black half morocco and cloth boards, upper covers lettered in gilt, spine in six compartments, edges gilt (light wear to joints and edges, small abrasion to upper cover of vol. III). Provenance: Elwes, coat-of-arms and initials (morocco label on upper covers).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FINEST AND RAREST HAND-COLORED ISSUE OF ROBERTS' MONUMENTAL WORK ON SYRIA, IDUMEA AND ARABIA, part of Roberts' Holy Land, but published separately. "One of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey p. 341). It is masterfully illustrated by Louis Haghe's lithography, of which Roberts wrote, "Haghe has not only surpassed himself, but all that has hitherto been done of a similar nature. He has rendered the views in a style clear, simple and unlaboured, with a masterly vigour and boldness which none but a painter like him could have transferred to stone."
The Holy Land was originally published in 3 states: tinted, with tinted proofs, and colored and mounted on card (as here). It was issued in 20 parts between January 1842 and the end of 1845 "containing all the plates listed [in Abbey] but not the map, and not in the same order. There were two title-pages only" (Abbey). This might explain why the above copy is bound without the map. Bound unusually, with 4 title-pages, the title to vol. I with the vignette Entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, repeated (with the numeral changed) in vol. IV, and with the title for vol. III (sometimes missing) is present. Bound without the two leaves of text Bethleham and Idumea. Abbey, Travel 385; Tooley 401. (4)