Views in the Ottoman dominions, in Europe in Asia, and some of the Mediterranean islands. : From the original drawings taken for Sir Robert Ainslie, / by Luigi Mayer, F.A.S. With descriptions historical and illustrative.
Luigi Mayer (1755-1803)
Category
Books
Date
1810
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3241523
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8] p., 71 leaves of plates (1 folded) : col. ill. ; fol. Pencil price on front pastedown: "9[?]/-/-"; pencil note on rear pastedown: "71 views". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half blue stained calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto six recessed cords; six false bands; gilt tooled spine; dark red morocco title label on upper board, gilt lettered: 'Views in the Ottoman dominions, &C. &C.' inside a border of double gilt fillets and gilt rolled Greek key pattern.
Makers and roles
Luigi Mayer (1755-1803), artist