Shelfmark
Id5.3.02 - Id5.3.03
Author
Title
Nineveh and its remains: with an account of a visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers, and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians. By Austin Henry Layard, Esq. D.C.L..
Edition
Second edition. In two volumes..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : [Printed by Spottiswoodes and Shaw for] John Murray, Albemarle Street 1849..
Physical description
2 v. : ill., maps (1 folded), plans, plates (incling portrait) ; 23 cm.
Note
Printer's name from colophon, volume I, "London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New stret-Square.".
Note
Pagination - volume I: xxx, [2], 399, [1] p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded); volume II: xii, 491, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded).
Note
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-Z⁸ AA-CC⁸; [A]⁴ a² B-GG⁸ HH⁶.
Provenance
Both volumes: armorial bookplate of Arthur G. Soames, engraving dated 1899, on front pastedown. Stamp with eagle and lion and name Iltyd Nicholl on front flyleaf recto, Eton School Library booklabel on the verso.
Binding
19th-century half-bound red morocco and marbled paper over paste/millboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets between paper and leather. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt tolls and titling. Textblock trimmed and marbled. Endpapers of marbled and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Assyrian Church of the East members.
Subject
Yezidis.
Subject
Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq.
Subject
Nineveh (Extinct city)
Subject
Assyria.
Subject
Iraq Antiquities.
Added entry--name
Murray, John, 1808 - 1892 publisher.
Added entry--name
Soames, Arthur G., 1886 - 1962 former owner.
Added entry--name
Clayton, Iltyd Nicholl, 1886 - 1955 former owner.
Added entry--name
Spottiswoodes and Shaw printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52725