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The Overland Alphabet, from Sketches taken ''en route'' by Isabel D_ with 28 Illustrations Coloured.
Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor lithog.rs 36, Walbrook, London.
London. William Tegg & C.º, 85 Queen Street, Cheapside, and Sold by Joseph Myers & C.º, Leadenhall Street [n.d., c.1853].
4º, recent stiff wrapper with marbled cover; illustrated title and nine plates, all tinted lithographs finished with fine hand colour. Scarce. Title and two plates with small tears repaired, a few spots.
An account of a voyage from Southampton to Egypt aboard S.S. Bentinck, via Gibraltar and Valletta, then across Suez, via Aden and Madras to Calcutta. Each letter of the alphabet (three to a page) is given a vignette scene and two lines of verse (described as 'execrable rhyming couplets' in a 2007 Sothebys sale). The author was unable to find a 'Z' word.
[Ref: 69280] £890.00 view all images for this item
Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor lithog.rs 36, Walbrook, London.
London. William Tegg & C.º, 85 Queen Street, Cheapside, and Sold by Joseph Myers & C.º, Leadenhall Street [n.d., c.1853].
4º, recent stiff wrapper with marbled cover; illustrated title and nine plates, all tinted lithographs finished with fine hand colour. Scarce. Title and two plates with small tears repaired, a few spots.
An account of a voyage from Southampton to Egypt aboard S.S. Bentinck, via Gibraltar and Valletta, then across Suez, via Aden and Madras to Calcutta. Each letter of the alphabet (three to a page) is given a vignette scene and two lines of verse (described as 'execrable rhyming couplets' in a 2007 Sothebys sale). The author was unable to find a 'Z' word.
[Ref: 69280] £890.00 view all images for this item