2080 - (Merigot, J.).

(Merigot, J.). A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and Its Vicinity. Recently Executed from Drawings Made on the Spot. London, (Edwards 1797–99). 4°. With 62 (including the frontispiece) aquatint plates. 36 text leaves. Late half leather with gold-stamped fillets, raised edges, and gilt headband (partially scuffed). Rossetti 7005. Cox I, 166. Lowndes IV, 1537. - A magnificent collection of views of Rome, here in the smaller, uncolored edition in quarto format. A larger, colored edition appeared in the same year, which is generally referred to as the “first edition.” Rossetti, however, lists an even earlier edition with 62 plates, published in 1796. The 1797 edition, however, contains only 60 plates according to Rossetti. Among the views are the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Trajan’s Column, the Arch of Triumph, the Villa Medici, etc. – Plates dated 1796–1798. With explanatory parallel text in English and French—pages partly with some ink transfer from the plates. Internal joints brittle, endpapers replaced—coat-of-arms ex-libris of Earl Granville, K.G.