LUMISDEN (ANDREW)


Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome and its Environs, FIRST EDITION, 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, rebacked preserving original spine, upper cover detached [cf. Abbey Travel 178; Olschki 17435], 4to (282 x 220mm.), W. Bulmer & Co., for G. Nicol, 1797
|EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, with the complete suite of plates from James Merigot's A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome (1799 or later).Provenance: W.A. Foyle, gilt morocco label; his sale, Christie's, 13 July 2000, lot 855.