Accession number
PML 196008
Creator
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778-1823.
Published
London : John Murray, 1820.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Issued as accompanying atlas to Belzoni's work: Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs and excavations in Egypt and Nubia.
Letterpress t.p. and description of plates followed by 34 leaves of illustrations numbered 1-44, with some individual plates containing multiple numbered illustrations; nos. 1-10, 13-19, 34-37, and 44 are color lithographs; nos. 32, 33, 38, and 39 are b&w lithographs; nos. 11, 12, 20-23, 25-31, 40-43 are hand colored etchings; folded plate no. 24 is a hand colored aquatint.
Price on front board: £6. 6s.
Lithographs printed by the firm of C. Hullmandel; etchings executed by A. Aglio and aquatint by I. Clark; all after designs by G. Belzoni, with the exception of plate 20 which is etched by Aglio after a drawing by Sarah Belzoni.
Letterpress t.p. and description of plates followed by 34 leaves of illustrations numbered 1-44, with some individual plates containing multiple numbered illustrations; nos. 1-10, 13-19, 34-37, and 44 are color lithographs; nos. 32, 33, 38, and 39 are b&w lithographs; nos. 11, 12, 20-23, 25-31, 40-43 are hand colored etchings; folded plate no. 24 is a hand colored aquatint.
Price on front board: £6. 6s.
Lithographs printed by the firm of C. Hullmandel; etchings executed by A. Aglio and aquatint by I. Clark; all after designs by G. Belzoni, with the exception of plate 20 which is etched by Aglio after a drawing by Sarah Belzoni.
Description
[2] leaves, 44 [i.e. 34] leaves of plates (some fold.) : chiefly col. ill. ; 62 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's original calf-backed boards with printed on front.
Classification
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