Egypt & Nubia From Drawings Made On The Spot By David Roberts R.A. With Historical Descriptions By William Brockedon, F.R.S. Lithographed By Louis Haghe. Vol. I, II, III

Egypt & Nubia From Drawings Made On The Spot By David Roberts R.A. With Historical Descriptions By William Brockedon, F.R.S. Lithographed By Louis Haghe. Vol. I, II, III is an artwork by DAVID ROBERTS, dated 1846-49. The work is executed in 3 vols, large folio. Contemporary red half morocco by M. Ogle & Son of Glasgow, spines with 6 raised bands, each decorated with triple gilt fillets, compartments richly gilt and lettered direct, sides and corners trimmed with quadruple gilt fillets, Placard pattern marbled sides, pale primrose surface-paper endpapers, gilt edges. With 121 tinted lithographed plates, 61 of which are full page, 60 half-page, and 3 vignette-titles, in the scarcest form, with original hand-colour, cut to the edge of the image and mounted on card in imitation of watercolours, as issued, mounted on guards throughout.. Its recorded dimensions are 60 x 43 cm 23 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.. View the artwork and contact Colnaghi for further information.