BARTLETT, William Henry.
The Nile boat; or, glimpses of the land of Egypt ... Second edition.
London, Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1850.
8vo, pp. vi, [2], 218, [14 (publisher’s ads)]; with engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, 33 plates (1 folding), and several illustrations in the text; some browning to tissue guards, a very few light marks; a very good, crisp copy in original green cloth by Westleys & Co., London, covers richly gilt, top edge gilt; rebacked, a little wear to corners and discolouring to lower cover; ink inscription to front free endpaper ‘E.S. Gilbertson Jan. 1 1850 from E.G.’ and label to front pastedown.
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The Nile boat; or, glimpses of the land of Egypt ... Second edition.
Second edition (first 1849), with handsome steel-engraved illustrations. ‘Bartlett visited Egypt twice, in 1842 and in 1845 (his third and fourth voyages to the Levant). His description of Egypt was extremely successful; five editions had appeared by 1862’ (Blackmer). ‘While disclaiming for the text of his book any pretensions to originality, the writer is anxious to say that this is not the case with the illustrations, of which the whole were drawn upon the spot, many of them with the Camera Lucida. He has endeavoured to present ... as much variety as possible, displaying the principal monuments of the earlier or Pharaonic monuments, as at Thebes; the later Ptolemaic style, as at Edfou and Philae; with some of the most beautiful specimens of the Arabian, at Cairo’ (p. iii).
Blackmer 89.
