[Rarebooks] FS: David Roberts THE HOLY LAND, 1855, with 250 tinted lithographs
Charles Agvent
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ROBERTS, David. THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT & NUBIA. /
AFTER LITHOGRAPHS BY LOUIS HAGHE FROM DRAWINGS MADE ON THE SPOT. London:
Day & Son, 1855. First Quarto Edition. With Historical Descriptions by
The Revd. George Croly. Six quarto (8-1/4" x 12") volumes bound in three
in later half red morocco leather with matching corners and
gilt-lettered and decorated spines. Complete with 250 tinted lithographs
including the frontispiece portrait of David Roberts in the first
volume, a frontispiece of the temple at Abu Simbel and the map of his
tour in the second, as well as all 6 lithographed title pages and print
lists at the opening of each volume. In 1838 Roberts traveled to Egypt,
which had grown popular both as a travel destination for the adventurous
antiquarian, and as the subject of highly valued artworks. The journey
became an extensive tour of the region, including Jerusalem, Petra (in
modern Jordan), Giza, Thebes and various sites along the Nile. During
this trip, he constantly sketched stunning views of colossal ruins,
ancient temples of the Egyptian and Persian empires, and particularly
biblical sites in and around Jerusalem. His sketches also depicted the
local customs, clothes and contemporary dwellings, markets and palaces,
and the third published volume (the first half of the second volume in
this set) includes a scene depicting his meeting with Muhammad Ali Pasha
in Alexandria, which he did not sketch at the time but is reputed to
have produced from memory. Upon his return to Britain, after he was
fêted by high society in Scotland, he worked with the engraver Louis
Haghe to produce the collection in book form, funded by subscriber which
he personally solicited. Thanks to the popularity of the subject matter,
and the relative absence of British art on the same subject, he was
quite successful, with Queen Victoria as subscriber number one (her
large paper folio copy is still in the Royal Collection.) Louis Haghe,
along with William Day, was a Lithographer to the Queen and innovator in
the process of colour lithography, and the lithographs in this volume
benefit from his skill. Some foxing, heaviest on the titles and initial
leaves, occasionally to the margins of the plates but rarely affecting
the images. Public library bookplate with small ink stamps at various
places throughout, sometimes in the margins of the plates but never on
the images. Hinges repaired with new paste-downs, general scuffing and
wear along spine edges but bindings still tight. Very Good. (#018398)
$6,500
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