A popular account of discoveries at Nineveh
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)
Category
Books
Date
1852
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Coleton Fishacre, Devon
NT 3173943
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiii, [1], 360, 32 p., frontis. plate, plates (some fold.). ill.., plates, wdcuts. 19cm. Provenance: Inscribed in ink: ‘G.E. Pitt’, and: ‘M.C. Stanton / 17:1:22. – ‘Keep ‘98’ Binding: Publisher’s red cloth, decorated, panelled, black-lettered: ‘Murray’s Reading for the Rail / Layard’s / Nineveh’. – Loosely inserted newspaper cutting from the Times [undated] ‘Layard: pioneer of archaeology’ by Gordon Waterfield on the occasion of the twelfth international meeting of Assyriologists, London, July 1-4’
Makers and roles
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)