The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart.
Robert Wood (1716/17 – London 1771)
Category
Books
Date
1753
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3048869
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 50 p., LVII [i.e. 59] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; fol. Pencil “766” on free endpaper verso. Provenance: no marks of provenance. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled & mottled calf over boards on seven raised double cords; gilt tooled spine, with vase motif; gilt rolled board edges; marbled edges to match endpapers; gilt lettered brown spine-label: Ruins of Palmyra.
Makers and roles
Robert Wood (1716/17 – London 1771), writer Giovanni Battista Borra (1713-1770), artist Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758), engraver (printmaker) Johann Sebastian Müller (Nuremburg c.1715 - 1792), engraver (printmaker) Tobias Müller (1744-1790), engraver (printmaker) John Gibson (1fl.750-1792), engraver (printmaker)