[Travel & Exploration] [Italy] (Merigot, James) A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity...
London: Sold by Messrs. Robinsons, Mr. White, Mr. Faulder, et al., no date (ca. 1819). Third edition. Folio. English and French text. Illustrated with one hand-colored aquatint frontispiece ("Ruines de Rome", with J. Hearne imprint) and 61 hand-colored aquatint and stipple-lined engraved plates. Contemporary full tan calf, stamped in blind and in gilt, joints and spine dry, front board joints splitting along top and bottom, boards and extremities rubbed; marbled edges, matching marbled endpapers; offsetting from plates on to text; scattered minor spotting to text and plates; armorial book-plate on front paste-down, additional book-plate of James Hansard on front free endpaper. Abbey, Travel 178; Lowndes Part 6, p. 1537.
"This work has been twice reprinted; first, by White and Cochrane, about 1805; subsequently by Mr. Hearne, about 1819..." (Lowndes).
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London: Sold by Messrs. Robinsons, Mr. White, Mr. Faulder, et al., no date (ca. 1819). Third edition. Folio. English and French text. Illustrated with one hand-colored aquatint frontispiece ("Ruines de Rome", with J. Hearne imprint) and 61 hand-colored aquatint and stipple-lined engraved plates. Contemporary full tan calf, stamped in blind and in gilt, joints and spine dry, front board joints splitting along top and bottom, boards and extremities rubbed; marbled edges, matching marbled endpapers; offsetting from plates on to text; scattered minor spotting to text and plates; armorial book-plate on front paste-down, additional book-plate of James Hansard on front free endpaper. Abbey, Travel 178; Lowndes Part 6, p. 1537.
"This work has been twice reprinted; first, by White and Cochrane, about 1805; subsequently by Mr. Hearne, about 1819..." (Lowndes).