1845 2nd Edtn THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS [TWO VOLS] By Eliot Warburton Illus. Day & Haghe Good History

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1845 2nd Edition , 
THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS [TWO VOLS]
or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel
By Eliot Warburton
Irish-born travel writer and historian. A society-connected gentleman who travelled widely in the Middle East. Rose to literary fame with this book. Wrote histories and biographies. Died tragically in the 1852 Amazon steamship disaster off Newfoundland; manuscripts lost.
The Crescent and the Cross is his best-known work.

Illustrated By: Day & Haghe
Lithographs by Day & Haghe (Lithographers to the Queen)

Format: Hardcover, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 813
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Henry Colburn, London

Synopsis: Chronicling Warburton’s journey through Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, and Greece at the height of British romantic fascination with the East. A celebrated narrative blending observation, antiquarian interest, political intelligence, and the picturesque. Popular on publication and frequently reprinted; desirable here in a handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance.
A notably attractive example of Warburton’s most influential work, admired in its day by Kinglake and the circle of early Victorian travel writers. A text that helped shape British imagination of the Levant before the Crimean War, here elevated by period binding and significant noble provenance.
“Belper” armorial bookplate (Barons Belper, Strutt family).
SKU: BTETM0002514
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg

1845 2nd Edition , 
THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS [TWO VOLS]
or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel
By Eliot Warburton
Irish-born travel writer and historian. A society-connected gentleman who travelled widely in the Middle East. Rose to literary fame with this book. Wrote histories and biographies. Died tragically in the 1852 Amazon steamship disaster off Newfoundland; manuscripts lost.
The Crescent and the Cross is his best-known work.

Illustrated By: Day & Haghe
Lithographs by Day & Haghe (Lithographers to the Queen)

Format: Hardcover, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 813
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Henry Colburn, London

Synopsis: Chronicling Warburton’s journey through Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, and Greece at the height of British romantic fascination with the East. A celebrated narrative blending observation, antiquarian interest, political intelligence, and the picturesque. Popular on publication and frequently reprinted; desirable here in a handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance.
A notably attractive example of Warburton’s most influential work, admired in its day by Kinglake and the circle of early Victorian travel writers. A text that helped shape British imagination of the Levant before the Crimean War, here elevated by period binding and significant noble provenance.
“Belper” armorial bookplate (Barons Belper, Strutt family).
SKU: BTETM0002514
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg

Good - A finely bound Victorian travel classic.
Two volumes, 8vo. pp. xii, 402; viii, 414. With two lithographed frontispieces by Day & Haghe (Lithographers to the Queen), an additional engraved plate in each volume, and numerous in-text wood-engravings.
Bound in contemporary full diced calf, gilt-panelled spines with twin morocco labels, gilt board edges, marbled edges and endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities, plates foxed as usual, occasional minor spotting; a sound and clean set, tightly held, and very pleasing on the shelf.
Armorial bookplate of Belper — the Strutt family, Barons Belper (title created 1856), the eminent Derbyshire industrial-political house descended from the cotton pioneer Jedediah Strutt. The plate showing the baron’s coronet above the cubit arm crest holding a roll of parchment. A refined peerage association.
OCLC number: 500056548
OL Number: OL23291707M
LCCN: 04022774

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