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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1814. Hardback, contemporary half-morocco, gilt titles to spine, raised bands. Top edge gilt. Pp. xii, 61 + 150 full-page plates to rear, of which 10 are hand-coloured. Engraved title page and 18 plates within the text. 1st edition. nd. [circa1814]. Binding very slightly rubbed. A charming gilt decorative leather bookplate of W. A. Foyle to front pastedown. A splendid copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (ac12). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: H.G. Bohn, [1814]. Good. 23 cm; xi, 61, [1] pages, and 151 engraved plates (numbered 150), twelve of them hand colored. Eighteen additional engraved vignettes in text. Engraved title page. Bound in contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, with leather title label. Joints reinforced. Engraved title page somewhat foxed and toned. Light toning at edges, but plates generally clean and free of blemishes. Reference: Bohn, A catalogue of books (1848) p. 150. Influential compendium of the decorative motives of the Greco-Roman world. Published in 1814 under the imprint of Richard and Arthur Taylor, Henry G. Bohn acquired the remainders from his father in 1831 and released them under his own name.

London: Bohn, 1814.. 61 pp., 151 plates, some in color. Historic essays. green cloth embossed boards sq. 8vo. Light foxing of title and a few plates. Some marginal damp stains on last 50 pages. Spine edges and corners rubbed. Very good condition. Good to very good.

Henry G. Bohn, Covent Garden. London. [1814]. 4to.. pp. 61, (i). Engraved title-page, 150 engraved plates [9 with a terra-cotta wash, 1 with a black wash], 18 engraved vignettes in text. Later red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, sides faded and marked, both joints weak, front more so. *LARGE PAPER copy.

From Various Museums and Collections. Engraved on 170 Plates.An influential compendium of the decorative motifs of the Greco-Roman world.With 151 engraved plates (numbered 1-150 with additional plate 115*), 18 additional engraved vignettes in the text, and engraved title page (slightly foxed as usual). Including 10 hand-coloured plates of vases, the Portland Vase and paterae in the British Museum, and 11 mezzotints of Roman tombs and sepulchral chambers.Henry Moses (1781-1870) was an English engraver who worked on Ancient Marbles in the British Museum (1812-1845), Select Greek and Roman Antiquities (1817), Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield (1819), as well as book illustrations to Faust (1821), Fridolin (1824), etc.First published in 1814 under the imprint of Richard and Arthur Taylor, Henry G. Bohn acquired the remainders from his father in 1831 and released them under his own name soon after.Rebound in brown cloth with new endpapers, a few signatures springing loose. One plate, No.… Read More

London: J.Williams, Library of Fine Arts., 1814. 61pp with 18 text vignettes headers and tail-pieces followed by 151 full size plates [no 115 duplicated]. Fine dark plates with clean paper and wide margins. First 4 plates a trifle foxed. Engraved title-page. Fine publishers half-calf binding with fine patterned burgandy cloth to the boards. Originally pub. in 1814 this copy was published by J. Williams, Charles Street, Soho Square. Bohms, Taylor and Clay also published the same title in 1814 in separate impressions. Preface dated 1814.22cms. The foot of the spine dated '1836'. [binding date]. Printed by Richard Taylor, Shoe Lane, London.. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine. square 4to.

London : H.G. Bohn, 1814. 1st edition. Hardcover. Finely bound copy in modern aniline calf over marbled boards. Gilt blocked title to spine with raised bands. Light water-staining to title page. Impressively engraved. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 61, [1] pages) illustrations, 150 (i.e. 151) plates. Subjects; Vases. Art objects, Classical.

1814. (London), Henry G. Bohn, (1814). Small 4to. Orig. full green cloth, blindstamped. Some tears to hinges. Uncut. XII,14 pp. Engraved title and 151 fine engraved plates (of various sizes) of which 10 are handcoloured (all).

London: J.Taylor, [1814]., 1814. small 4o. pp. 1 p.l., xii, 63, [1]. engraved title, 151 engraved plates (9 hand-coloured), & 18 engraved head & tailpieces. contemporary straight-grained deep red morocco, sides with blind-tooled border & central panel stamp, gilt back, inside dentelles, gilt edges (slight chipping to spine ends & corners worn, scattered light foxing, dampstain in upper margin of some plates). First Edition. Most of the vases and other antiquities depicted were selected from authentic public and private collections, which included the British Museum, the Musée Napoleon, the Museo Pio Clementino, the Libreria di San Marco, the Museum Capitolinum, and those belonging to Thomas Hope, William Hamilton, as well as to himself. Others are copied from Piranesi, Bartoli, and Millin. Nineteen plates in the section on tombs "may not at first appear connected with the principal object of the work: yet as they represent some of the vast and superb sepulchral chambers in… Read More