The Holy Land

London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, circa 1889. Three parts in one, preceded by the original 4-volume folio edition published privately in the 1840s and the quarto editions that followed in the 1850s.

120 hand-colored lithographs after Roberts' drawings, with accompanying text by Reverend George Croly. Divided into 3 sections: I. Jerusalem and Galilee, II. Bethlehem, and III. Idumea and Petra.

Near Fine in publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and page edges. Spine lightly toned, contemporary gift inscription on the half-title page. A lovely copy of this book of lithographic reproductions of Roberts' original drawings, with accompanying text by Reverend George Croly.

[Book #124699]