The Land and the Book
Subtitle: or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land
By: by W. M. Thomson ...
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 718
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible -- Geography; Palestine in the Bible; Palestine -- Description and travel
Other titles: Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land
Notes: Plates are unsigned "Nelson prints", i.e. pen-and-ink lithographs printed in a brownish purple ink with the ground and sky coloured by two wood blocks.  For more on this process, see Gascoigne, Bamber.  How to identify prints, 1986, p. 30-31.

Folded map with imprint: "Published by T. Nelson & Sons, London, Edinburgh & New York.".

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  A few are signed "DW Sc." and "A. Roy".  One each is signed "A. R." and "H. Prior".

"The pictorial illustrations have been prepared with much care, and beautifully executed ... Many of them are original, and others selected from the best existing sources, and so corrected as to be more true to nature and more appropriate to the book.  In this department the author has been largely indebted to the pencil of his son, W. H. Thomson."--Author's Preface.

Includes "Index of names and subjects.": p. [700]-714 and "Index of scripture texts illustrated.": p. [715]-718.

MASS copy: Bound in blue sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with an illustration of an ancient coin replicated from the t.p.  Boards with bevelled edges.  With brown painted endpapers.5CaOTMC