GELL, William. Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of

GELL, William. Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations Since 1819. London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1832. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (237 x 152mm.) Numerous engraved plates and plans, 2 hand-coloured. (Spotting to plates.) Original half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spines, t.e.g. (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Hubert Vincent (ink name to title); Jill McEverdy (ink name to mounted plate on front endpaper of vol. 1). – And a further five volumes (including A.H. Payne’s ‘Royal Dresden Gallery: Being a Selection of Subjects Engraved After Pictures’, 2 vols., [circa 1850], 4to, and T.G. Bonney’s ‘Cathedrals Abbeys and Churches of England and Wales’, 2 vols., 1898, 4to, and Mary Sturgeon’s ‘Westminster Abbey’, 1921, 4to) (7).

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