Title: Views in India. China, and on the Shores of the Red Sea
Author: Roberts, Emma
Description: 2 volumes in 1. Chromolithograph frontispiece and 60 steel engraved plates after original sketches by Commodore Robert Elliot; 2 engraved title pages. (4to) 10¾x8¼, early half red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt decorated, all edges gilt.Plates drawn by Prout, Stanfield, Cattermole, Purser, Cox, Austen, & others after original sketches by Commodore Robert Elliot.
Heading: (Asian Art - China)Place Published: London
Publisher: H. Fisher, R. Fisher & P. Jackson
Date Published: [c. 1835]
Author: Roberts, Emma
Description: 2 volumes in 1. Chromolithograph frontispiece and 60 steel engraved plates after original sketches by Commodore Robert Elliot; 2 engraved title pages. (4to) 10¾x8¼, early half red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt decorated, all edges gilt.Plates drawn by Prout, Stanfield, Cattermole, Purser, Cox, Austen, & others after original sketches by Commodore Robert Elliot.
Heading: (Asian Art - China)Place Published: London
Publisher: H. Fisher, R. Fisher & P. Jackson
Date Published: [c. 1835]
Condition report
Lower third of spine partially detached, binding detached along front hinge and nearly so along rear; dampstain to plates, mostly confined to margins but extending briefly into image on several; else good.
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Silver Reference, Decorative & Graphic Arts
1:00 PM PT - Jul 10th, 2008
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