Antiquitiés Etrusques, Greques et Romaines. : Tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, [...].
Pierre-François Hughes, Baron d'Hancarville (1719-1805)
Category
Books
Date
1766 - 1767
Materials
Place of origin
Naples
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3049172
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates : ill. ; fol. Imperfect: vols. 1-2 only. Pencil corrections to text on vol. 1, p. 30. Loosely inserted pencil reverse copy of vol. 1, plate 101 on tracing paper. Old glass bottom stains on vol. 2, plates 42-3, 63. Provenance: no marks of provenance. Binding: Eighteenth-century diced goat over boards on six raised cords with false double raised bands; gilt tooling on spine bands; triple gilt fillet on covers (thin-thick-thin); gilt rolls on board edges and inners; yellow painted edges; light blue silk bookmarks.
Makers and roles
Pierre-François Hughes, Baron d'Hancarville (1719-1805), author Sir William Hamilton KB (1730-1803), collector