1844 Walks About the City and Environs of Jerusalem

Description

Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Second edition.

In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. With engraved half title page, but lacking title page.

Decorated throughout with engravings, including a frontispiece, engraved half title page, twenty-three plates, two panoramic plates, two folding maps, and numerous vignettes. Collated, complete. 

This work is the result of the Bartlett's visit to Jerusalem in the summer of 1842, providing topographical, historical and cultural observations of his walks through the Holy City. With descriptions of the citadel, Arab women, Jewish antiquities, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mosque of Omar and much more.

W. H. Bartlett was a British artist best known for his drawings rendered into steel engravings, particularly those that depicted ruins or elements of the past.