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The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart. London: 1753.
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WOOD, Robert (1717-1771)
The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart. London: 1753.
A large, uncut copy with wide margins of the first edition. Wood, accompanied by James Dawkins, John Bouverie and the Italian artist and architect Giovanni Battista Borra, travelled extensively in the Levant, reaching the relatively unvisited sites of Palmyra and Balbec in 1751. The Ruins of Palmyra appeared first; the labour and the cost of publishing delayed publication of The Ruins of Balbec until 1757. Walpole praised Wood's work, and the plates of these unfamiliar sites, mainly by Fourdrinier and Major after Giovanni Battista Borra, became an important architectural source. Berlin Kat. 1884; Blackmer 1834; Fowler 443; Harris 939; RIBA 3707.
Large folio (570 x 380mm). 3 full-page engraved illustrations of inscriptions, 59 engraved plates and plans (first plate with some light marginal staining just into engraved image, some very light scattered browning to title and a few plates at end). 19th-century half calf, uncut (extremities rubbed, head- and tail of spine more heavily with short splits to joints at head). Provenance: Viscount Lymington (18th-century engraved armorial bookplate).
The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart. London: 1753.
A large, uncut copy with wide margins of the first edition. Wood, accompanied by James Dawkins, John Bouverie and the Italian artist and architect Giovanni Battista Borra, travelled extensively in the Levant, reaching the relatively unvisited sites of Palmyra and Balbec in 1751. The Ruins of Palmyra appeared first; the labour and the cost of publishing delayed publication of The Ruins of Balbec until 1757. Walpole praised Wood's work, and the plates of these unfamiliar sites, mainly by Fourdrinier and Major after Giovanni Battista Borra, became an important architectural source. Berlin Kat. 1884; Blackmer 1834; Fowler 443; Harris 939; RIBA 3707.
Large folio (570 x 380mm). 3 full-page engraved illustrations of inscriptions, 59 engraved plates and plans (first plate with some light marginal staining just into engraved image, some very light scattered browning to title and a few plates at end). 19th-century half calf, uncut (extremities rubbed, head- and tail of spine more heavily with short splits to joints at head). Provenance: Viscount Lymington (18th-century engraved armorial bookplate).
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