Museum Worsleyanum or a collection of antique basso relievos bustos statues and gems with views of places in the Levant taken on the spot in the years MDCCLXXXV VI and VII (vol 2 (oversize))
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Museum Worsleyanum or a collection of antique basso relievos bustos statues and gems with views of places in the Levant taken on the spot in the years MDCCLXXXV VI and VII (vol 2 (oversize))
Classmark: Bedford Collection K004
Creator(s): Worsley, Sir Richard (1751-1805)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Blundell, Thomas Weld (1808-1887) (Formewr owner)
Publisher: [From the Shakspeare Press, by W. Bulmer & Co.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1794 [i.e. 1798-1802]
Language: English
Size and medium: 2v.,plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/738143
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019978496705181
Description
Anonymous. By R. Worsley.
Imprint from colophon (page 100 Vol 1).
Text in English and Italian.
Vol.1 appeared in 1798, vol.2 in 1802, the titlepages to both parts bearing the date 1794.
The titlepage is engraved. Engravings by Alex Mochetti, Carni Tinti, Giovanni Petrini, W Skelton, A Fiori, J Hall, Gir Carattoni, T Pozzi, J Bossi and others, drawn by V Dolcibene, C R Ryley etc.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K004 (vol 1 & 2): contemporary quarter calf, gold tooled on spine, marbled paper over boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K004: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/58. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown of volume 2: Thomas Weld Blundell [i.e. Thomas Weld Blundell (1808-1887) of Ince Blundell Hall, Merseyside, see Franks 2894].
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