enry Harper – Three Travelogues to the Holy Land – London, 1881-1901 – First Editions, with Numerous Illustrations

Three travel books by British artist and painter Henry Andrew Harper (1835-1900), published in London between 1881 and 1901. English. First editions.

1. Illustrated Letters to my Children from the Holy Land, Eastern Manners and Customs Depicted in a Series of Sketches from Life. [London]: The Religious Tract Society, [1881]. First edition. Illustrated with four plates and numerous in-text illustrations.

[4] leaves, 13-82, [2] pages. Lacking two leaves at beginning. 27 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Inscription on front endpaper, dated 1882. Original decorated binding.

2. Walks in Palestine. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1888. English.

Twenty-four chapters presenting sites and landscapes of the Holy Land: orange groves in Jaffa, Jaffa Gate, the Western Wall, Rachel's Tomb, the Valley of Jehoshaphat, the Mount of Olives, the Jordan River, and others. Each chapter accompanied by a photogravure plate after a photograph by Cecil V. Shadbolt. The gilt-embossed binding depicts two figures walking along a path amidst lush vegetation in Jaffa. On the flyleaf: certificate awarding the book to an outstanding pupil of a religious school in Aberystwyth, Wales, 1903.

128 pages + [24] photogravure plates. 30.5 cm. Gilt edges. Fair-good condition. Stains, creases, and wear. Original gilt-illustrated binding, with stains, blemishes and wear; loss to edges of spine.

3. An Artist's Walks in Bible Lands. London: The Religious Tract Society, [1901]. English.

Frontispiece photogravure of Mount Hermon; 55 additional illustrations of landscapes and sites of the Holy Land, some full-page and some in-text, after the author's drawings.

256 pages. 25 cm. Good condition. Inscriptions on flyleaf. Wear and defects to binding. Original gilt-illustrated binding.