Accession number
PML 146513
Creator
Merigot, James.
Published
London : Sold by Messrs. Robinsons, Paternoster-Row ..., [ca. 1824?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added hand colored aquatint t.p.: Ruines de Rome. Published by J. Hearne.
The plates printed on paper watermarked 1821-1824, with original imprint statements naming J. Merigot and R. Edwards as publishers, dated 1796-1798.
Parallel text in English and French.
"Printed by W. Lewis, 21, Finch-lane, Cornhill"--Colophon.
Originally published in 1797 and 1799. The first part being published by R. Edwards, Bond Street, and the second having no publisher's name on the t.p., only 'sold by'. The 62 aquatints in this edition are reprints of those first published in 1797-1799, with the added engraved t.p. in the later state with J. Hearne's imprint. Cf. British Architectural Library.
Library's copy imperfect: lacking plates 6 and 20, with plate 28 trimmed to platemark and loosely laid in.
The plates printed on paper watermarked 1821-1824, with original imprint statements naming J. Merigot and R. Edwards as publishers, dated 1796-1798.
Parallel text in English and French.
"Printed by W. Lewis, 21, Finch-lane, Cornhill"--Colophon.
Originally published in 1797 and 1799. The first part being published by R. Edwards, Bond Street, and the second having no publisher's name on the t.p., only 'sold by'. The 62 aquatints in this edition are reprints of those first published in 1797-1799, with the added engraved t.p. in the later state with J. Hearne's imprint. Cf. British Architectural Library.
Library's copy imperfect: lacking plates 6 and 20, with plate 28 trimmed to platemark and loosely laid in.
Description
[72] p., 62 [i.e. 63] leaves of plates: ill. (hand col. aquatint) ; 48 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Alice Brayton; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 red morocco.
Classification
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