Letters from the Aegean
Author: Emerson, James
Year: 1829
Edition: First edition
Publisher: London; Henry Colburn
Category: The Levant
Modern calf, two volumes in one, 8vo., the spine divided by five raised bands into six compartments, the raised bands bordered in gilt and the second compartment lettered in gilt.
The Blackmer copy with his bookplate on front pastedown.
Collation vol. I: pp. xv, (1), 244.
With an aquatint frontispiece and a folding map bound between preliminary pages and the main part.
Collation vol. II: pp. viii, 266.
One leaf of ads after the last page.
The map with a tear on a fold where it is attached to the bookblock.
Both volumes without half title. Scarce.
Atabey 397, Blackmer 550, Weber I, 172.
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