Id5.3.04
Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon ; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum. By Austen H. Layard ; with maps, plans, and illustrations..
Spine title: Layard's Nineveh and Babylon
Portion of title: Nineveh and Babylon
London : John Murray, 1853.
xxiii, 686 p. : front., ill., plates (part fold.) fold maps., fold. plans ; 23 cm.
Spine title: Layard's Nineveh and Babylon.
Printer's name from colophon, volume I, "London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New stret-Square.".
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.
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.
Nineveh (Extinct city)
Babylon (Extinct city)
Soames, Arthur G., 1886 - 1962 former owner.
Clayton, Iltyd Nicholl, 1886 - 1955 former owner.
Murray, John, 1808 - 1892 publisher.
Eton College School Library former owner.
Spottiswoodes and Shaw printer.
England London.
eng
B52726