William Bartlett: Gleanings, Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland Route. / By the Author of “Forty Days in the Desert.”

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William Bartlett : Gleanings, Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland Route. / By the Author of “Forty Days in the Desert.”

Hall, Virtue & Co., London, c. 1851

Contemporary ½ blue morocco with marble boards and gilt borders, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt text on two and four, top edge gilt, endpapers marbled. , Plates are generally clean and crisp, a fine copy, bound in decorative nineteenth-century binding., 8vo, P. (4), blank, frontis, engr. title, blank, title, printer’s imprint, list of illustrations iii-iv, contents v-vi, preface i-ii, 3-256, (4)., Complete with 28 steel-engraved plates, including the frontispiece and the engraved title.

W. H. Bartlett was a most prolific and popular European traveler-artist of the 19th century. “A visit to the Mediterranean in 1850 with one of his sons – taking in Gibraltar, Granada and Malta – resulted in ‘Gleanings Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland Route’.” (Hunnisett) , Ibrahim-Hilmy 55; Hunnisett 118

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