Shelfmark
Id5.3.04 (Copy 1)
Shelfmark
CS.1336.28 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
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..
Varying form of title
Spine title: Layard's Nineveh and Babylon
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Nineveh and Babylon
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : John Murray, 1853.
Physical description
xxiii, 686 p. : front., ill., plates (part fold.) fold maps., fold. plans ; 23 cm.
Note
Spine title: Layard's Nineveh and Babylon.
Note
Printer's name from colophon, volume I, "London: Spottiswoode and Shaw, New street-Square.".
Provenance
(Copy 1) 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.
Provenance
(Copy 2) Bookplate on front pastedown: "Hunc librum Joseph Henrico Warner [name supplied in ms.] honoris causa D.D.C.O. Goodford Magister Informator A.D. M.DCC.L.V [V seems to be supplied in ms.]".
Binding
(Copy 1) 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.
Binding
(Copy 2) 19th century brown calf binding; gilt double fillet border with ornaments in corners and gilt decorative centrepiece on both boards; five raised bands on spine with gilt decorations and gilt titling on dark green leather compartment; marbled edges; marbled endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Eton leaving book.
Subject
Nineveh (Extinct city)
Subject
Babylon (Extinct city)
Added entry--name
Soames, Arthur G., 1886 - 1962 former owner.
Added entry--name
Clayton, Iltyd Nicholl, 1886 - 1955 former owner.
Added entry--name
Murray, John, 1808 - 1892 publisher.
Added entry--name
Warner, Joseph former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--name
Spottiswoodes and Shaw printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52726