A Collection Of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi. &c. From Various Museums And Collectionst, Engraved…By…

London: J.Taylor, [1814]., 1814. small 4o. pp. 1 p.l., xii, 63, [1]. engraved title, 151 engraved plates (9 hand-coloured), & 18 engraved head & tailpieces. contemporary straight-grained deep red morocco, sides with blind-tooled border & central panel stamp, gilt back, inside dentelles, gilt edges (slight chipping to spine ends & corners worn, scattered light foxing, dampstain in upper margin of some plates). First Edition. Most of the vases and other antiquities depicted were selected from authentic public and private collections, which included the British Museum, the Musée Napoleon, the Museo Pio Clementino, the Libreria di San Marco, the Museum Capitolinum, and those belonging to Thomas Hope, William Hamilton, as well as to himself. Others are copied from Piranesi, Bartoli, and Millin. Nineteen plates in the section on tombs "may not at first appear connected with the principal object of the work: yet as they represent some of the vast and superb sepulchral chambers in which Vases, Cinerary Urns, and Sarcophagi were deposited, and are taken from Bartoli and other celebrated authorities, it is hoped that they will be considered as an useful addition."(p. v) These include the mausoleum of Hadrian, and the tombs of Caius Cestius, Cecilia Metella, Alexander Severus and Julia Mammea, &c. The engraver Moses "enoy[ed] a great reputation for his outline plates, which are distinguished for the purity and correctness of the drawing. His art was peculiarly suited to the representation of sculpture and antiquities, and he published many sets of plates of that class." (DNB). 1st Edition. Hardcover.