A collection of vases, altars, pateræ, tripods, candelabra, sarcophagi &c. : from various museums and collections
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Type of record: Book
Title: A collection of vases, altars, pateræ, tripods, candelabra, sarcophagi &c. : from various museums and collections
Classmark: Bedford Collection A136
Creator(s): Moses, Henry (1782?-1870)
Additional creator(s): Baber, Henry Hervey (1775-1869) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Adamson, John (1787-1855) (Former owner); Lubbock, St Nicholas Churchyard, Newcastle (Bookbinder)
Related people: Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870
Publisher: J. Taylor, no. 59, High Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1814?]
Language: English
Size and medium: xii, 61, [1] p., 150 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723257
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019823469005181
Description
The historical essays are by H. H. Baber. cf. Brit. Mus. Cat
Engraved title page with ornamental border.
Date of publication on plates: Oct 1. 1811. Preface dated 1814. Two plates numbered 115.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A136: contemporary green calf, gold tooled on cover, spine, and edges, gilt fore-edge.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A136: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/29. Partially obliterated MS inscription on front flyleaf: John Adamson [i.e. John Adamson (1787-1855), antiquary and Portuguese scholar, from Newcastle ]. Nineteenth-century? MS. inscription on front flyleaf: O G Wyatt? Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: bought by L ? Wyatt [?] 1856. Early 19th-century bookbinder's label on front flyleaf: Lubbock Bookbinder St. N. C. Yd [St Nicholas Churchyard] Newcastle [i.e. William Lubbock 1798-1822]. Bookseller's note on front flyleaf in pencil.
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