Layard, Austen Henry

First edition, large folio (586 x 445mm.), additional chromolithographed title and 101 lithographed plates (numbered 1-100, 7a and 95a), mostly on india paper and mounted, 6 coloured and 6 printed in sepia, all mounted on guards, contemporary red morocco gilt by Mackenzie, inner dentelles gilt, gilt edges, occasional light spotting or soiling, joints with a little splitting at ends, foot of spine expertly repaired, upper cover rubbed

Henry H.B. Beaufoy, F.R.S., bookplate; Sefik E. Atabey, book label, sale in these rooms, 29 May 2002, lot 677

Atabey 686; not in Blackmer

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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The plates illustrate findings from Layard's first expedition to Nineveh. This copy belonged to Henry Beaufoy, whose extensive library was sold at Christies in two parts, 7 July 1909 and 16 July 1912.