£600 - £800
Architecture. Texier (Charles) & Pullan (R. Popplewell, Architect to the Budrum (sic; i.e. Bodrum, Turkey) Expedition; Agent for The Dilettanti Society in Asia Minor), Byzantine Architecture; Illustrated by Examples of Edifices Erected in the East During the Earliest Ages of Christianity. With Historical and Archæological Descriptions, first English edition, London: Day & Son, Lithographers, 1864, chromolithographed additional architectural title-page (Frontispiece in the List of Plates), half-title, complete, contents collating: [xii], 218pp, illustrated with 70 tinted lithographed or chromolithographed plates, in-text wood-engraved illustrations and ornamental vignettes, an ex-library copy, their stamps to the fore-margin of every leaf and verso of every plate (though not affecting the image to recto), [2O2] & 2Q1 with single tears to their lower margin affecting or just touching letters, but without loss, further and lighter chipping in places throughout, some finger soiling, occasionally on plates - yet not within the image, plates LXIX & LXX printed as one double-page with stable inner-gutter split and tear, 20th institutional green morocco over cloth, gilt lettered, somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, contemporary red-stained edges as issued, pastedowns and endpapers with their withdrawn and other labels and stamps, folio (42.5 x 33cm), [Atabey 1213; Blackmer 1647]
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