A Collection of Antique Vases by Henry Moses - 1831: Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c.

From Various Museums and Collections. Engraved on 170 Plates.

An influential compendium of the decorative motifs of the Greco-Roman world.

With 151 engraved plates (numbered 1-150 with additional plate 115*), 18 additional engraved vignettes in the text, and engraved title page (slightly foxed as usual).

Including 10 hand-coloured plates of vases, the Portland Vase and paterae in the British Museum, and 11 mezzotints of Roman tombs and sepulchral chambers.

Henry Moses (1781-1870) was an English engraver who worked on Ancient Marbles in the British Museum (1812-1845), Select Greek and Roman Antiquities (1817), Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield (1819), as well as book illustrations to Faust (1821), Fridolin (1824), etc.

First published in 1814 under the imprint of Richard and Arthur Taylor, Henry G. Bohn acquired the remainders from his father in 1831 and released them under his own name soon after.

Rebound in brown cloth with new endpapers, a few signatures springing loose. One plate, No. 58, stained with dried paint. Slight spotting to a few engravings, but mostly clean and crisp.