[HORNE, The Rev. Thomas Hartwell]. Landscape Illustrations of The Bible, Consisting of Views of the Most Remarkable Places Mentioned in the Old and New Testaments. From Original Sketches Taken on the Spot, Engraved by W. and E. Finden. London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, MDCCCXXXVI [1836].
FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes, leather-bound, hardcover, quarto (27.5cm x 18.5cm), unpaginated, vol. I: pp. xii, [90] text pages + 50 plates; vol. II: iv, [87] text pages + 46 plates. English text. Beautifully bound in contemporary full morocco gilt, all page edge gilt, yellow endpapers, engraved title to each volume, engraved plates throughout (most beautifully hand-coloured and retaining the original tissue guards), printed footnotes. Printed by A. Spottiswoode of London. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure with the hinges and joints perfectly intact. Trivial rubbing to extremities. Interiors largely well-preserved with some light intermittent marginal staining. A wonderful set.
Notes: The first edition of this two volume work of beautifully illustrated landscape engravings of Biblical locations, accompanied with descriptive passages. The 96 engraved plates (most hand-coloured) depict sites mentioned in the Bible and in the New Testament (including title-pages of both parts); engraved by William Finden and Edward Francis Finden after paintings by William Turner, Augustus Wall Callcott, David Roberts, and others. Among the engravings are views and sites in Palestine (Jerusalem, Mount Tabor, Mount Carmel, Kishon river and more), Egypt, Jordan, Syria and more places. Alongside the engravings are printed texts about the different sites. The brothers, William (1787-1852) and Edward Francis (1791-1857), Finden often worked for John Murray, specialising in portraits and landscapes. The Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780-1862) was a theologian, bibliographer and librarian, who worked as a senior assistant in the Department of Printed Books of the British Museum, 1824-60.
