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Sir David Wilkie's Sketches in Turkey, Syria & Egypt; 1840 & 1841 / drawn on stone by Joseph Nash.

Accession number
PML 146819
Creator
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Published
[London] : Published by Messrs Graves & Warmsley, 1843.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Cover title: Sir Wilkie's Oriental Sketches.
Single leaf of letterpress text with introduction and list of plates (2 p.), hand colored illustrated lithographic title plate, and 25 hand colored tinted lithographs, with some plates executed in a combination of crayon manner and lithotint technique.
The hand colored issue, with the individual plates trimmed and mounted on card.
Imprint on title plate reading "Published by Messrs Graves & Warmsley ... 1843. Printed by C. Hullmandel" trimmed off in mounted copies. Cf. Abbey.
Description
[2] p., [26] leaves of plates : chiefly hand col. ill. (lithograph) ; 57 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Loose plates in publisher's original 1/2 red morocco portfolio, as issued.
Classification
Department