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Creator:
Reale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia
Title(s):
The antiquities of Herculaneum / translated from the Italian; by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice ... ; containing pictures.
Additional Title(s):
Antichita di Ercolano esposte. English
Published/Created:
London : Printed for S. Leacroft, at the Globe, Charing-Cross, MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], lxxiii, [1], 236, [2] p., [50] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., map ; 33 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N5775 .A2313 1773+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary full calf, rebacked. Bookplates of Walter Flinn and John Pope. Inscribed: John Pope's 1776.
SML,Y J567 +757Ag: Autograph on title-page: Charles Nettleton. 117 Broadway, N.Y. City.
A translation of vol.I of 'Le antichita di Ercolano esposte' edited by Ottavio Antonio Bayardi, published by the Reale Accademia Ercolanese di archeologia (Naples) in 1757.
Engravings by Alexander Bannerman, Charles Grignion, Peter Spendelowe Lamborn, Isaac Taylor, and Tobias Müller.
No more published.
Signatures: a-k⁴ ℓ B-Hh⁴
Leaf Dd⁴, between pages [206] and [207] blank.
English short title catalogue, N16613.
Includes a nine page list of subscribers.
With a final errata leaf.
Subject Terms:
Art, Greco-Roman -- Early works to 1800.
Flinn, Walter -- Bookplate.
Herculaneum (Extinct city) -- Early works to 1800.
Leacroft, S. -- Publisher.
Nettleton, Charles -- Autograph.
Pope, John -- Autograph, 1776.
Pope, John -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1773.
Etchings -- 1773.
Subscriber's lists.
Contributors:
Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694–1764.
Lettice, John, 1737–1832.
Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825.
Bannerman, Alexander, approximately 1730, engraver.
Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810, engraver.
Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722–1774, engraver.
Müller, Tobias, active 1744–1790, engraver.
Taylor, Isaac, 1730–1807, engraver.
Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795, publisher.
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