LUMISDEN, Andrew (1720-1801)

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Lot 207 | LUMISDEN, Andrew (1720-1801)
LUMISDEN, Andrew (1720-1801)

Remarks on the antiquities of Rome and its environs. London: W. Bumer & Co. for G. Nicol, 1797.

First edition, extra-illustrated with the complete suite of plates from James Merigot's A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome, 1799 or later [cf. Abbey Travel I, 178]. Olschki 17435; Schudt 774.



Quarto (282 x 220mm). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding engraved maps, 10 plates, 3 folding, extra-illustrated with a hand-coloured aquatint title and 61 hand-coloured aquatint views of Rome by Merigot (occasional light spotting and browning, some oxidisation to coloured plates). Contemporary calf, gilt turn-ins and edges (rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, recornered). Provenance: William Foyle (red leather gilt booklabel; sale Christie's 13 July 2000, lot 855).





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