MOSES, Henry.
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Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. [Parts 5 & 6].
Stock Code 32071
London, Henry Moses, 1824
An 'eminent artist distinguished for the neatness and purity of outline', Moses found fame as one of the engravers attached to the British Museum. The result was his illustrated Select Greek and Roman Antiquities published in 1817 (ODNB).
Landscape small folio (19 x 28 cm); 10 etched plates of various London dockyards, foxed and age-toned throughout; publisher's illustrated wrappers, 'Nos 5 & 6' MS in pen to top left of upper wrapper, dated Dec 1, 1824 but some prints dated March 1, 1825, spine split but holding, covers worn and chipped.
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