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Tyro vindicating the Innocence of Herod's two Sons, Alexander & Aristobulus, whom the Tyrant afterwards put to Death, on a false Accusation.
Complete
1792-1793
Bentley-Blake Collection
Tookey, James, engraver
1 leaf : illustration ; 39 x 23 cm
Rare Books
Plate opposite page 264: Josephus, Flavius. The whole genuine and complete works of Flavius Josephus. London : Printed for C. Cooke ..., [1792-1793].
The plates are engraved by Grignion (17), Tookey (6), Heath (4), Blake (3), Jas. Neagle (3), Scot (2), Collier (2), Noble (2), Sharp (2), Morris, Smith, Warren, Sparrow, Parker, Warner, Page and Grainger. Illustrators for the plates include C.M. Metz (19), T. West (10), Stothard (5), Luykin (3), Ramberg (3), C. Cooke (2), Corbould, Salvator Rosa, Trepisian, Weston, C. Graves, and Moreau. The remaining ten plates were unsigned.
Includes 3 engravings by William Blake: "The parting of Lot and Abraham, after seperating their flocks, &c." (Metz delin.) (opposite page 13); "The Battle of Ain, & the destruction of the city, by the army of Joshua" (Stothard delin.) (opposite page 64); "The fugitive Shechemites burnt and suffocated in the holds of their retreat by order of King Abimelech" (Metz delin.) (opposite page 76).
Imprint date from Bentley.
See Catalogue Link below for full Victoria University Library catalogue record.
Blake no.744
Public Domain
Jews -- Antiquities
Jews -- History
0744
West, T., illustrator
https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/1ljrbt7/alma991106036706906196
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