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Edité par Fisher, Son, & Co, London, Paris, America, 1836
Vendeur : Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No DJ. W.H. BARTLETT, WILLIAM PURSER ET AL (illustrateur). Published: 1836. DESCRIPTION: Volumes I and II bound in full red leather with gilt borders and decoration. Four ridged spine with gilt decoration and panels. Gilt all edges. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Rubbed spine and spine margins with some loss of red leather surface. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Spotting to half titles and equivalent rear pages. Spotting to some plate and page margins of varying degrees. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages Vol. 1: [4], ii, 80 p., [37] leaves of plates; v. 2: 76 p., [37] leaves of plates. Size: 28cm by 21.5cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information.
Edité par Fisher, Son, & Co [1837-1838], London, 1837
Vendeur : Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
First Editions. Three volumes; first or early printings, with half-titles dated 1837,1837, and 1838. Small quartos (27cm). Contemporary gilt-panelled calf, elaborately tooled borders, spines extra-gilt, gilt turn-ins; pale yellow coated endpapers; 80;76;100,[4]pp; engraved half-titles, 120 steel-engraved plates after W.H. Bartlett, William Purser, and Thomas Allom. Some professional restoration to bindings, including discreet tissue repairs to spine ends and hinges; scattered faint foxing and soil to text; marginal damp-spotting to about a dozen plates, slightly encroaching into image area on about half of those; a couple of tissue guards lacking; in all, a Very Good set, solid and generally clean within, in a rather lovely (but unsigned) contemporary binding. Early ownership signature (Mary Dunn) to all three volumes, dated 1863. Carne (1789-1844) travelled throughout the Ottoman Empire in 1821, recounting his adventures in a series of articles in The New Monthly Magazine; these were later published in book form as Letters From the East (1830). Carne's biographer notes that the book is singular "for the fact that there is not a single date to be found in it, except the title-page." As a work of travel writing, the current title, though beautifully illustrated, is also rather on the impressionistic side - short on physical detail and rather over-written, perhaps bolstering the same biographer's backhanded observation that "Among those who knew him, [Carne's] fame as a story-teller far exceeded his renown as a writer" (DNB).