Shelfmark
Iaa3.2.05(01)-Iaa3.2.05(04)
Author
Title
Fragments, illustrative of the manners, incidents, and phraseology, of the Holy Scriptures : principally selected from the most esteemed and authentic voyages and travels into the East; with additional remarks and observations, intended as a continued appendix to Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for Charles Taylor, No. 105, Hatton-Garden, MDCCXCVIII-MDCCCI [1798-1801]
Physical description
4v., plates (some folded) : ill., maps, ports. 26 cm., 4to.
Note
Title statement and imprint taken from title-page of the first hundred.
Note
Published in four sets of a hundred fragments each. The first, second and third hundred have each a separate titlepage. There is also a titlepage for 'The second volume' after the end of the third hundred.
Note
The first hundred has [13] leaves of plates, ([1] folded); the second hundred has [23] leaves of plates, ([1] folded); the third hundred has [65] leaves of plates, ([6] folded).
Note
"The second volume" includes: "Supplementary addenda & corrigenda to Calmet's dictionary of the Holy bible".
Citation/references note
ESTC T27443
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6129, no. 03)
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Ms. bookseller's notes, codes, and prices in pencil.
Provenance
Bookplate of John T. Beer.
Provenance
Ms. title of the fore-edge painting in John T. Beer's hand on back pastedown.
Binding
Early 19th century mottled calf with gilt and blind tooling, and gilt on red leather lettering piece on spine ; fore-edge painting signed by John T. Beer.
Subject
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early work to 1800.
Added entry--name
Beer, John T. (John Thomas), ca. 1826 - 1903 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756 - 1823 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B26904