Emily A. Beaumont [Viscountess Strangford] - Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines, including some stay in the Lebanon, at Palmyra, and in - 1861

Folding chromolithograph frontis.
5 chromolithography plates.
Illustrations on wood from sketches by the author.
Although there is a map listed it was never issued
with any copies.

Half-calf over marbled boards.
Gilt decorative panels.
Contrasting gilt titles.
Colour endpapers and page-blocks.

Volume I.
xii, 411 pages.
Chromolithograph folding panorama frontispiece.
2 chromolithograph plates with tissue-guards.
In-text woodcut illustrations.

Volume II.
vi, 484 pages.
Chromolithograph frontispiece plate with tissue-guard.
2 chromolithograph colour plates with tissue-guards.
In-text woodcut illustrations.

"Emily Ann Smythe, Viscountess Strangford or
Emily Anne Beaufort RRC, (1826–24 March 1887)
was a British illustrator, writer and nurse.
In 1858 she set out on a journey with her elder sister
to Egypt. She wrote, Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian
Shrines was dedicated to her sister, and describes the
places she visited in Syria, Lebanon, Asia Minor and
Egypt with illustrations based on her sketches from
her journey. The volume was so popular that it was
re-issued several times."

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