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London: Printed By John Haberkorn for the Authors, 1762. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio, unpaginated, vintage marbled boards, rebacked with corners of canvas, new endpapers; Lacks plates 21 & 22 in chapter 4 ( showing Bacchan pirates turned into dolphins), some mostly marginal bookworm tracks; Errata leaf bound in place, long vertical tear in the last folding plate. Rare. This is vol. 1 only: Subsequent volumes appeared into the early 1800s. [ Fowler 340 ]. "After their return to London in 1755, Stuart worked on the first volume of Antiquities of Athens, which was published in 1762. He wrote and revised the text, had the illustrations engraved and designed a binding, as well as painting views of Greece and Pola in gouache for exhibition. The first volume contained details of just five buildings in the northern part of Athens, but more were promised in further volumes. The first volume had more than 500 subscribers. Few were architects or builders, which limited the impact of the…
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THE ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS; AND OTHER MONUMENTS OF GREECE, AS MEASURED AND DELINEATED BY...
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London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street; and Combe and Co. Leicester and Rugby, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 6 in. xv, 103 pp. Full black calf with gilt decorations, raised spine bands, brown calf spine label, and marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Numerous plates and folding plates backed with fine linen. Condition is VERY GOOD ; edges a bit worn, no cracks to the leather. A layer of some type of clear shellac has been painted over the spine and onto a bit of the boards. Binding tight and text bright and unmarked. Previous owner's name, dated 1838, on the second blank. Ancient Hist. RGR.
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London: John Haberkorn, 1762. First edition. Hardcover. In original boards with recent morocco spine to style. Boards surfaces are worn but stable, occasional smudges to text and plate margins, a few leaves with short tears to margins, overall the volume has a pleasing, venerable appearance. Ex-libris Woodward's Gardens (a San Francisco amusement park with a museum art gallery, zoo, etc. operating from 1866 to1891) with their faint ink stamp to endpapers, dedication page, and versos of most plates. . Elephant folio, 57 x 38 cm (22.5 x 15 inches), 2 fl., x, 52 pp, 71 copperplate engravings, including 1 double-page view, 5 single-page views, and 65 measured drawings and details of architectural ornamnents (1 folding), many engraved head and tail pieces. Originally conceived around 1750, it took James Stuart (1713-1788) and Nicholas Revett (17201804) several years to garner enough financial support to undertake their nearly 3-year (1751-1754) expedition to explore, document, and carefully measure…
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