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Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii, the result of excavations since 1819 / by Sir William Gell.

Accession number
PML 142445
Creator
Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836.
Published
London : Jennings and Chaplin, 1832.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added engraved t.p.
A sequel to Pompeiana, by W. Gell and J. P. Gandy, London, 1817-19; originally published in 12 parts; plates are dated 1830-31.
"London : Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars."--Vol. 1, t.p. verso.
Includes frontispiece portrait of William Gell, engraved by Fenner Sears & Co. after Thomas Uwins. The plates are engraved after William Gell by Henry Moses, R. F. Cahusac, J. Henshall, James Tingle, Daniel Havell, J. C. Varrall, W. Kelsall, James Baylis Allen, Benjamin Winkles, Starling, W. Schmollinger, Frederick James Havell, Kernot, [Thomas?] Higham, George Gladwin, and E. Faithorn.
Plates are accompanied by guard sheets.
Vol. 1: xxiv, 198 p., [38] leaves of plates; v. 2: 207 p., [49] leaves of plates.
Plates facing pages 50 and 174 in v. 1 are handcolored.
Library's copy has several of the 30 engraved textual illustrations printed on india paper and mounted in place.
Description
2 v. : ill. (engravings), plans, port. 25 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Purple leather tooled in gilt.
Classification
Department