"THOSE HOLY FIELDS" PALESTINE, ILLUSTRATED BY PEN AND PENCIL. By The Rev. Samuel Manning, L. L. D. Published by The Religious Tract Society. Very Good + condition. 224 pages. Book is medium blue board with vivid gilt lettering. Beautiful front cover depicts scene with camel, a woman sitting on camel, and man with rifle beside camel - gilt figures and ground. Village is shown in background. Spine also very decorative with gilt. Top and bottom spine edges are worn. "Drawn with Pen & Pencil" in black lettering on spine. Gilt all edges. Frontispiece is tissue guarded. Owner's book plate (Adelle Webber Gray) on front end paper, but rear end papers show browning. Nicely decorative end papers are done in brown floral design. Numerous interior illustrations. Eight pages at back of book advertising other travel books. Book is square and tight.
Original Pale Blue and gilt-stamped full cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorative title-page. Illustrated headpieces. Decorative initials. A remarkable account of a journey through the Holy Land in 1873, designed to illustrate the histories of the Scriptures. This volume is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w full-page maps and pen & pencil illustrations depicting views of Palestine. Rev. Samuel Manning was a clergyman who, like many of his contemporaries, acquired his great knowledge of the Holy Land entirely from a study of the Bible. In 1873, however, he travelled to the Holy Land to "compare the Land and the Book". This work is the result of his researches.
An account of a journey through Southern Palestine or Judea in 1873, designed to illustrate the histories of the Scriptures. Beautifully illustrated. Illustrated with maps and numerous pen & pencil drawings. Gilt edges. Tissue guard on frontis. 8 pages of Publisher's Illustrated List at back. The charming illustrations are wood-engravings and photoxylographs (wood engravings from photographs); the original pen-and-pencil drawings are reproduced here in Gillotage, a method of printing from etched metal relief block. They are all of high quality, contributing greatly to the charm of this classic. Rev. Samuel Manning was a clergyman who, like many of his contemporaries, acquired his great knowledge of the Holy Land entirely from a study of the Bible. In 1873, however, he traveled to the Holy Land to "compare the Land and the Book". Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous engravings, many of which are full-page plates printed on side one of the leaf only; engraved vignettes; head- and tail-pieces; several (full-page) maps and plans; engraved elaborate first initial. Footnotes, indices. All edges gilt. Lovely floral patterned endpapers. Noteworthy, some of the illustrations are indeed true representation of the place, engraved after original photographs. Index with references to Scripture References.
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