Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
McPherson, Duncan, d. 1867
Title:
Antiquities of Kertch : and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus : with remarks on the ethnological and physical history of the Crimea / by Duncan McPherson.
Published / Created:
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.
Physical Description:
xiv, 130 p., [2], xii leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), 2 maps ; 37 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DK30 .M33 1857+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Five lithographs by and after C.F. Kell. Some of the lithographs printed by William West.

Maps engraved by Edward Weller, after Trelawney Saunders.

With an added lithographed title page.

With wood-engraved illustration within the text.

List of subscribers: p. [131]-[132].

Publisher's advertisements: p. [133]-[136].

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 243

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in black publisher's black cloth, with title stamped in gilt. Binder's ticket: Bound by Westley's & Co., London.
Subject Terms:
Kerch (Ukraine) -- Antiquities. | Crimea (Ukraine) -- Antiquities. | Smith, Elder & Co. -- Publisher. | Westley's & Co. -- Bookbinder.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- 1857. | Wood engravings -- 1857. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1857. | Lithographs -- 1857.
Contributors:
Kell, C. F., ill. | West, William, lithographer, lithographer. | Saunders, Trelawney, 1821–1910, cartographer. | Weller, Edward, d. 1884, engraver.