LYSONS, Samuel.
LYSONS, Samuel. An Account of Roman Antiquities discoverd at Woodchester in the County of Gloucester. London, Sold by Cadell & Davies, B.& J. White, Edwards, Payne, Robson, Nicol, Elmsley, and Leigh & Sotheby. 1797.
Large Elephant folio, with text in English and French; pp. [vi] including decorative hand-coloured aquatint title and dedication plate to King George III, and list of plates, 20; [iv] separate French title-page and list of plates, 21, [1] blank; with two large stipple engraved head and tail vignettes on p. 1 and 20 of English section, 35 finely finished hand-coloured, etched and/or aquatinted plates, (including 9 double-page), and 5 uncoloured engraved plates, 40 plates in total; plate 40 misbound between plates 10 and 11; both letterpress text sections somewhat browned and foxed, with quite prominent dampstaining affecting upper margins; some staining to plate edges of plate 10, and with some occasional faint dampstaining affecting outer lower margins of later plates, but otherwise plates clean and bright; in contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, covers a little scratched and scuffed with later repair to upper outer margin replacing some of the marbling, extremities bumped and rubbed; with the signature of ‘C.P. Mather? Woodchester’ and ‘J.D. Bestwick, 1981’ on front free endpaper, together with Bestwick’s small book-plate; a good copy.
Sachgebiete: Altertum, Antike, Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte
18.08.2026 - 00:55
9950,- EUR
Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books
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