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Title(s)
Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England : in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818 / by Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence.
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Additional Title(s)
Route through India and Egypt to England
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Published/Created
London : John Murray, 1819.
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Physical Description
[iii]-xxiv, 502 p., [19] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col ill. maps, plans ; 29 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS475.6 .M86 1819+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS475.6 .M86 1819+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Spine title, on publisher's printed label: Route through India and Egypt to England. By Lieut.-Co. Fitzclerance. Nineteen plates and maps. £2.18s.
Aquatints by R. Havell & Son; after Fitzclarence.
Maps engraved by John Walker.
Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.
Hobson, G.D. English bindings of J.R Abbey, no. 112
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 519
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in original pale blue paper boards.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in blind- and gilt-tooled blue morocco; gilt border of oak leaf sprays around repeated roses, thistles and shamrocks. Decorated spine and inside border. Blue velvet linings. Gilt edges. Bound for presentation to Adelaide, Duchess of Clarence (later Queen) with her coronetted initials and her arms with those of her husband on front and back covers. Unsigned but by George Mullen of Dublin. Cf. Hobson. -
Subject Terms
Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792–1849 -- Binding. | Davison, Thomas -- Printer. | Eardley, Sampson Gideon Eardley, Baron, 1744–1824 -- Bookplate. | Egypt -- Description and travel. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1819. | Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1819. | India -- Description and travel. | India -- History -- British occupation, 1765–1947. | Mahratta War, 1816–1818. | Mullen, George -- Bookbinding designer. | Murray, J. -- Publisher.
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Form/Genre
Aquatints -- 1819. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1819. | Armorial bindings (Binding) | Armorial bindings (Provenance) | Travel literature.
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