THE CITY AND ENVIRONS OF JERUSALEM/RARE/1845/FINE ORIGINAL BINDING

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Double your traffic. WALKS ABOUT THE CITY AND ENVIRONS OF JERUSALEM/RARE/1845/FINE ORIGINAL BINDING Album Album Album VERY RARE - SCARCE EDITION FINE ORIGINAL BINDING RARE EARLY EDITION 25 ORIGINAL STEEL ENGRAVED PLATES WALKS ABOUT THE CITY AND ENVIRONS OF JERUSALEM by WILLIAM H. BARTLETT LONDON: A. Hall, Virtue & Co. N. D. c. 1845, [published date: 1845]. Rare Second edition. 4to. 10.25" x 7.25" inches (LxB). Pp. viii, (2), 255, (4, ads) pages + Tinted frontispiece and illustrated title leaf inserted, 23 plates & maps (2 folding) inserted, 30 illustrations in text (complete). Without letterpress title, as issued , plates depicting places, monuments and details of Jerusalem, cream endpapers . Top edges gilt. Handsomely bound in fine original contemporary publisher's ornately gilt cloth richly decorated with friezes and irons in phytomorphic gold spine & covers. The results of the illustrator's travels to the Middle East in 1842. A striking series of landscapes and scenes with descriptive text credited to Dr. Beattie, Bartlett's sometime traveling companion. Rare second edition of this work by William Henry Bartlett (1808-1854), an English artist best known for his etchings. The primary intent of the author was to "give the impression of a live visual moment" as he himself wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1 849). For its taste to portray the remains of the past, the American poet Nathaniel Parker Willis wrote of him: "Bartlett is able to select their own point of view in order to bring in his sketches of the castle or the cathedral unaltered history or the antiquity of them preserved. A classic work. There are numerous close-up pictures of the contents given below; please Please take some time to view the 50+ pictures in detail, in order to gain a full idea of the contents and condition. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: /wiki/William_Henry_Bartlett William Henry Bartlett (March 26, 1809 � September 13, 1854) was a British artist , best known for his numerous steel engravings . Bartlett was born in Kentish Town , London in 1809. He was apprenticed to John Britton (1771�1857), and became one of the foremost illustrators of topography of his generation. He travelled throughout Britain, and in the mid and late 1840s he travelled extensively in the Balkans and the Middle East . He made four visits to the United States between 1835 and 1852. In 1835, Bartlett first visited the United States in order to draw the buildings, towns and scenery of the northeastern states. The finely detailed steel engravings Bartlett produced were published uncolored with a text by Nathaniel Parker Willis as American Scenery; or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature . American Scenery was published by George Virtue in London in 30 monthly installments from 1837 to 1839. Bound editions of the work were published from 1840 onward. [1] His impressions of Canada were collected in Canadian Scenery in 1842. Bartlett made sepia wash drawings the exact size to be engraved. His engraved views were widely copied by artists, but no signed oil painting by his hand is known. Engravings based on Bartlett's views were later used in his posthumous History of the United States of North America , continued by Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward and published around 1856. William Henry Bartlett died of fever on board of a French ship off the coast of Malta returning from his last trip to the Near East , in 1854. Bartlett's primary concern was to render "lively impressions of actual sights", as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). Many views contain some ruin or element of the past including many scenes of churches, abbeys, cathedrals and castles, and Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring p... read more

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