Cook's Third Voyage with Atlas of Plates (1784)

Cook, James, a voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... (1784), ['Cook's…
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Cook, James, a voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... (1784), ['Cook's third Voyage'], with an atlas of the plates, James cook and James King, a voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Undertaken by the Command of his Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere [etc.] (G. Nicol and T. Cadell, London, 1784), large quarto, three volumes, vols I and II in speckled cal, vol. III in blocked calf, the uniform spines labelled 'Cook's voyages -1776-80'., together with an associated atlas of the plates, folio, quarter calf with marbled paper boards, the gilt-tooled spine labelled 'Plates of Cook's Voyages', the four volumes comprising all but two of the eighty six plates and charts called for.

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  • Marbling - A descriptive term for a finish applied to plastic, ceramics, glass, plaster or wood to imitate the colours and characteristic markings of various marble types. For moulded items such as the first three above, the marbling is within the item.

    Interiors and furniture were marbled from from the early 17th century to the late Victorian period. The craft was practiced by skilled decorators using a combination of brushes and sponges. Some of the finishes achieved were so realistic as to make it difficult to distinguish the marbled surface from the marble surface.

    Marbling is also a term applied to a finish for paper as often seen in the front and endpapers of old books. The marbling is achieved by floating the colours on water and then transferring them to paper. However the marbling finish on paper, as with the marbling finish on plastics, with its multitude of colours has little resemblance to naturally occurring marble.

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