Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii.
Sir William Gell (1777-1836)
Category
Books
Date
1817 - 1819
Materials
leather, paper
Measurements
243 x 153 mm; 40 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088563
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxi,[1],273,[3]p.,77 leaves of plates, some folded . ill..,port..,plans . 8vo.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Nineteenth-century full leather panelled binding; gilt and blind tooled and rolled to form borders; gilt tooled and lettered on spine; gilt rolled on board edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers and edges. Bound uniform with V.6.8-9, Pompeiana, 1832.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Sir William Gell (1777-1836) John Peter Gandy (1787-1850)