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Illustrations of Cairo
Title
Illustrations of Cairo / by Robert Hay, Esq., of Linplum ; drawn on stone by J.C. Bourne, under the superintendence of Owen B. Carter, architect.
Publication
London : Published by Tilt and Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, 1840.
Manufacture
London : Printed by Moyes and Barclay, Castle Street, Leicester Square, [1840]
Physical Description
23, [1] pages, [29] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Imperfect: lacks letterpress title page. Bound in contemporary maroon quarter morocco and pink moiré cloth covers, with title stamped in gilt.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in contemporary black quarter morocco and dark blue moiré cloth covers, with title stamped in gilt. With the bookplates of Henry Barrett Lennard and James Frothingham Hunnewell.
Notes
With an added ornamental title page, lithographed within elaborate arabesque design: Views in Kairo by R. Hay Esq of Linplum,.
Cover title: Hay's illustrations of Cairo.
Lithography by John C. Bourne and Thomas Shotter Boys; after Robert Hay and Owen Browne Carter. Plates printed by C. Hullmandel, Day & Haghe, M. & N. Hanhart
Variant and related titles
Hay's illustrations of Cairo
Views in Kairo
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 270
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Lithographs - 1840.
Lithographs - Hand-colored - 1840.
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