Views in Egypt, . from the original drawings in the possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople, by Luigi Mayer: engraved by and under the direction of Thomas Milton: with historical observations, and incidental illustrations of the manners and customs of the natives of that country.
Luigi Mayer (1755-1803)
Category
Books
Date
1801
Materials
Measurements
485 x 350 x 37 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 3042098
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: Handmade wove paper [watermark 1801] and thin wove guard sheets against the platesInk/Pigment: Black printing ink and 48 hand-coloured aquatints Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English. (Hering?)End Leaves: Sewn single fold plain white wove paper (Whatman 1794) with a single leaf of blue drab paper made to white wove, leather joint and drab blue paper ‘doublure’ Structure: EnglishEdges: Plain cut to show proof and gilt Spine Lining: Moderate round with 12 false bands in pairs over supports,90° joints, linings not visibleEnd Bands: Worked left to right with front bead in wide bands (8-12 turns) of black and cream silk over double cores of rolled paper Bookmark: None Boards: Rope fibre, back cornered.Covering: brown tanned ‘russia’ calf with irregular dicing pattern (i.e. not diced on the book)Tooling Spine: gold-tooled roll at head and tail and small rosette in centre of each panel, different roll between paired false bands. titled direct in panel 2.Tooling Sides: Gold-tooled broad roll border between thin/thick fillets with large rosette in cxorners, roll on board edges and turn-ins and leather joints Furniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes: Bookplate of the Earl of Morley inside the front board.
Bibliographic description
[4],102,[2]p.,[48] plates . fol.. Plates coloured. Old shelf-mark: Q.2.2. Provenance: Bookplate: Earl of Morley.. Binding: Gold tooled, diced Russia, gilt edges. Both boards detached.
Makers and roles
Luigi Mayer (1755-1803) Thomas Milton