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FOOTSTEPS OF OUR LORD AND HIS APOSTLES IN SYRIA, GREECE AND ITALY: A SUCCESSION OF VISITS TO THE SCENES OF NEW TESTAMENT NARRATIVE.
by W H Bartlett
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Como, Italy
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About This Item
DESCRIPTION
Beautiful Gift book by W H Bartlett in a lovely binding which describes the scenes, typography and travels of our Lord and His apostles from the New Testament Narrative. Frontispiece, decorative title, title page, iv, 2, map, 237, 1, 16pp ads.
23 tissue guarded steel engravings including map executed by C. Cousen, A. Willmore, W. Hughes, J. C. Bentley, E. Brandard, after drawings by W H Bartlett.
24 Wood-cuts to the text by Branston, also after Bartlett. All plates and wood cuts present. The ads are historic and well executed with 7 additional engravings within them.
The book cost 26 shillings in 1852.
BINDING
Super-royal 8vo. Full morocco leather, extra fine binding.
Spine has 5 Raised Bands enclosing 5 gilt panels and the gilt title panel.
Front and rear boards have both gilt and blind embossed decorations.
Inner boards have yellow paste downs / endpapers and gilt dentelles.
All edges gilt.
CONDITION
Very good. Minor rubbing to binding and a few age marks from handling over the last 170 years. Inner and outer hinges remain firm & un-cracked. One tissue guard has a tear and one has a significant crease. In all, a very nice well preserved book. The first fly leaf has a neat pen inscription as follows :-
To Robert Pike
In memory of his kindness, and generous
assistance towards erecting a school
at Lyford , from his attached friend
W Williams.
Lyford Parsonage.
Nov. 1st. 1852 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Centocittad'italia
(IT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MB3BARTLETT
- Title
- FOOTSTEPS OF OUR LORD AND HIS APOSTLES IN SYRIA, GREECE AND ITALY: A SUCCESSION OF VISITS TO THE SCENES OF NEW TESTAMENT NARRATIVE.
- Author
- W H Bartlett
- Illustrator
- W H Bartlett
- Format/Binding
- Super-royal 8vo. Full morocco leather, extra fine binding.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., London,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1852
- Pages
- Frontispiece, decorative title, title page, iv, 2, map, 237, 1, 16pp ads.
- Size
- 254x175x33mm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Syria Greece Italy typography steel engravings letterpress wood-cuts Gift
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Books;
Terms of Sale
Centocittad'italia
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Returns, other than for damage, must be in the same condition as they were sent and are at your liability until being received by the seller.
About the Seller
Centocittad'italia
Biblio member since 2021
Como
About Centocittad'italia
Centocittad'italia I run round Italian town centers with old town views,maps, and Lithographs as a traveling sales person. I source books and prints and maps for my clients. Please quote anything you have.
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Rubbing
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Morocco
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- Fine Binding
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- Edges
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