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Description : [Illustrations of Cairo.] London: Tilt and Bogue, 1840]. 2o (543 x 370mm). Lithographed throughout, 2-colour 'additional' title, uncoloured dedication to Edward William Lane, 30 tinted lithographic views on 29 sheets, by T.S. Boys, T. Bourne, J.C. Bourne and L. Haghe, after Owen B. Carter, C. Laver and Hay, printed by Hullmandel, Day & Haghe or M. & N. Hanhart. (Bound without letterpress title or text). Original red cloth, title blocked in gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked to style in red straight-grained morocco, modern red cloth box, morocco lettering-piece. A fine copy of Hay's Cairo. The present copy, like the Abbey copy, is bound without the letterpress title and twelve leaves of text. Robert Hay, who inherited the estate of Linplum from his brother James, was one of the most fascinating figures in early Egyptian archeaology and exploration. "He was in Egypt as one of the leading members of an archaeological expedition between 1826 and 1838. [After staying in Cairo, where he executed the drawings from which the beautiful plates in the above work made, he moved to Qurna.] Among his companions were the artists Arundale, Catherwood, J. Bonomi the younger, and E. W. Lane. Besides Egyptian antiquities presented to the British Museum, there are in the department of manuscripts there forty-nine large volumes of archaeological and other drawings made during this expedition,... and also part of Hay's own diary... In 1840 Hay published a folio volume of 'Illustrations of Cairo,' lithographed by J. C. Bourne from drawings by O.B. Carter and Owen Browne Carter (1806-1859), "architect and draughtsman, spent most of his life at Winchester, where he had a large local practice as an architect. About 1829-30 he travelled to Egypt in company with Mr. Robert Hay of Linplum, and resided for some length of time at Cairo. There he executed a large number of architectural and topographical drawings, several of which are preserved in the Print Room at the British Museum. A selection of these drawings was lithographed under Carter's superintendence by J.C. Bourne and others, and published in 1840 by Mr. Hay in a folio volume entitled 'Illustrations of Cairo'" Abbey Travel I. 270' Blackmer 794; Gay 2497; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.292.
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