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

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1845 2nd Edition With Provenance

THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS TWO VOLS
or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel
By Eliot Warburton

Author Bio: 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
Illustrator Bio: Lithographs by Day & Haghe (Lithographers to the Queen)

Provenance: “Belper” armorial bookplate (Barons Belper, Strutt family).

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.

Format: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: English

Published By: Henry Colburn, London

Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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 Collation: pp. 813 Please see Photos as part of condition report.

SKU: BTETM0002514

Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request

1845 2nd Edition With Provenance

THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS TWO VOLS
or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel
By Eliot Warburton

Author Bio: 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
Illustrator Bio: Lithographs by Day & Haghe (Lithographers to the Queen)

Provenance: “Belper” armorial bookplate (Barons Belper, Strutt family).

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.

Format: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: English

Published By: Henry Colburn, London

Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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 Collation: pp. 813 Please see Photos as part of condition report.

SKU: BTETM0002514

Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request

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

Please see photos as part of condition report