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Account of the discoveries at Pompeii : communicated to the Society of Antiquaries of London

by: Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803

Publication date: 1777

Topics: Architecture, Roman -- Italy Pompeii (Extinct city), Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Discovery and exploration, Architecture, Roman -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city), Architecture, Roman, Discoveries in geography, Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)

Publisher: London : Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Volume: c.1

Item Size: 108.3M

Sloan candidate

Binding of copy 1: black morocco over pasteboard. Triple fillets in gold. Spine with 5 raised bands, gold tooling; title in 2nd compartment: POMPEII / [rule] / HAMILTON. Signed in gold on front turn-in: bound by Riviere & Son. Pencilled annotation on verso of front flyleaf: bound 1923. Book label of Althorp at upper left corner of front pastedown; bookplate at center of front pastedown with 2 interlaced S's and the address: 28 St. James's Place

Library's copy 1 has dedication in black ink on leaf before t.p.: To Colo.l Mordaunt / From S.r William Hamilton

Library's c. 2 bound in old tree calf; respined, with remnants of original spine laid down; gilt red morocco bookplate of the Marchioness of Stafford on front pastedown

18 pages, XIII leaves of plates (1 folded) : 29 cm (4to)

The folded plan is of the Temple of Isis

Ill. signed in the plate: Basire sc