Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of King Solomon's cities, together with those of forty of the most ancient and renowned cities of the East ... With two ... lithographs, and ninety ... engravings
A popular nineteenth-century travel and biblical antiquarian account by M. Wolcott Redding, published in 1874 for American and British readers curious about Solomon's cities and the ruined capitals of the Near East. Wood engravings of walls, temple platforms, hillside towns and robed figures in landscape sit inside a repeated ornamental border of interlace and foliate corners, useful as frame stock, vignette plates and archaeological scenery.
