Footsteps of our Lord and his Apostles in Syria, Greece & Italy: a succession of visits to the scenes of New Testament narrative. By W. H. Bartlett, author of Walks about Jerusalem & The Nile boat etc. Second edition.

Bartlett, William

Edité par London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co, 25 Paternoster Row. Dated: 1852., 1852

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Small, slim folio [7.75 tall x 5.00 wide]. Collates complete, [iv], [2], 237, [16]p. One full page map, 22 tissue faced steel engraved plates and 24 woodcuts. A very good, crisp and clean copy. Minor light marks or reading wear only. Minor offsetting or toning to the tissue between the plates. A very nice copy presented in a particularly handsome binding. William Henry Bartlett (26 March 1809 13 September 1854) British artist, best known for his numerous drawings rendered into steel engravings. Bartlett was born in Kentish Town, London, England on 26 March 1809. He was apprenticed to John Britton (1771 1857), and became one of the foremost illustrators of topography of his generation. He travelled throughout Britain, and in the mid and late 1840s he travelled extensively in the Balkans and the Middle East. He made four visits to North America between 1836 and 1852. In 1835, Bartlett first visited the United States to draw the buildings, towns and scenery of the northeastern states. The finely detailed steel engravings Bartlett produced were published uncoloured with a text by Nathaniel Parker Willis as American Scenery; or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. American Scenery was published by George Virtue in London in 30 monthly instalments from 1837 to 1839. Bound editions of the work were published from 1840 onward. The same publisher produced The Poems, Letters and Land of Robert Burns with engravings by Bartlett in 1838. In that same year Bartlett was in the Canadas producing sketches for Willis' Canadian Scenery Illustrated, published in 1842. Following a trip to the Middle East, he published Walks About the City and Environs of Jerusalem in 1840. Bartlett made sepia wash drawings the exact size to be engraved. His engraved views were widely copied by artists, but no signed oil painting by his hand is known. Engravings based on Bartlett's views were later used in his posthumous History of the United States of North America, continued by Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward and published around 1856. Bartlett's primary concern was to render "lively impressions of actual sights", as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). Many views contain some ruin or element of the past including many scenes of churches, abbeys, cathedrals and castles, and Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed". Bartlett returning from his last trip to the Near East suddenly took ill and died of fever on board the French steamer Egyptus off the coast of Malta on 13 September 1854. His widow Susanna lived for almost 50 years after his death, and died in London on 25 October 1902, aged 91. Bound in a rather handsome contemporary leather binding with ornate gilt décor to the spine and boards. Large blind tooled décor to the centre of the boards. Raised bands to the spine and with inner gilt dentelles to the boards. Minor light rubbing else a particularly attractive period binding. MULTIPLE ADDITIONAL PHOTO IMAGES AVAILABLE. CONTACT US TO REQUEST.

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• Titre: Footsteps of our Lord and his Apostles in Syria, Greece & Italy: a succession of visits to the scenes of New Testament narrative. By W. H. Bartlett, author of Walks about Jerusalem & The Nile boat etc. Second edition.
• Éditeur: London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co, 25 Paternoster Row. Dated: 1852.
• Date de parution: 1852
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 2nd Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
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