Shelfmark
Fs.1.14
Author
Uniform title
[Disquisition upon Etruscan vases]
Title
A disquisition upon Etruscan vases; : displaying their probable connection with the shows at Eleusis, and the Chinese feast of lanterns, with explanations of a few of the principal allegories depicted upon them.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by William Bulmer and Co. Cleveland Row, St. James's; for T. Becket, Pall-Mall., 1806.
Physical description
[2], vi, 99, [1] p., XVI leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm. (4to)
Note
Anonymous. By James Christie.
Note
Large paper copy.
Note
100 copies printed.
Note
Some copies have an extra plate of the vases in the collection of J. Edwards.
Provenance
Ms. presentation inscription on second front free-endpaper: "Presented to the library of Eton College, by the author."
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
19th-century black straight-grained morocco binding; border of a blind-tooled palmette roll within gold-tooled dotted fillets with gold-tooled ornament in compartments formed by the intersections; large centre ornament formed of interlaced rectangle and lozenge formed of double fillets with gold and blind tooling in compartments; blind-tooled spine with gilt lettering and quatrefoil ornaments; elaborately gold-tooled leather doublure with brown painted paper centre panel bordered with blind Greek key roll; gilt text block edges.
Copy-specific note
With the extra plate of the vases in the collection of J. Edwards.
Copy-specific note
This copy is extra-illustrated with the coloured originals for pls. I, VIII-XIII, and XV, as well as the extra plate and the head-piece on p. 1. At p. 70, there is a wash drawing of a seated angler taken from the Townley collection.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Bq.2.24, Bk.2.10.
Subject
Eleusinian mysteries.
Subject
Vases, Greek.
Subject
Mythology, Greek.
Added entry--name
Christie, James, 1773 - 1831 donor.
Added entry--name
W. Bulmer and Co. printer.
Added entry--name
Becket, Thomas, fl. 1760 - 1815 publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B40113