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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Greece pictorial, descriptive and historical ... With ... a history of the characteristics of Greek Art, by G. Scharf ... New edition, revised, with notices of recent discoveries, by H. F. Tozer..

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: John Murray, 1869. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Full contemporary calf binding, spine professionally laid down, some staining ot the back board, all edges gilt, marbelled endpapers and inner dentels. Contents fine, free of foxing or marks. Large octavo, binding is rock solid. A nice period copy of a well illustrated book -- nothing complicated.

London: John Murray, 1868. Contemporary morocco, spine gilt with raised bands; cover with double gilt borders. All edges gilt. Joints and corners very slightly worn.. Fifth Edition. About Very Good.

London: William S. Orr, 1853. New revised edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Copley Fielding; F.Creswick; D.Cox etc. etc.. New revised edition first printing Quarto hardback Fine full leather pictorial gilt Five raised bands all edges gilt xxiv + 458 pages Illustrated with 25 tissue guarded steel engraved plates and hundreds of wood engravings Near Very Good condition Leather rubbed at edges and spine Occasional light foxing No inscriptions

London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1853. 2nd Ed.. Hardcover. Good/None. 458 pages. Hardcover. Maroon leather binding with gilt decorations, raised bands on spine. All edges gilt, illustrated with numerous wood engravings and 25 steel engravings. First 6 pages (including frontispiece and title page) with a water stain to bottom third, otherwise very good throughout with tissue guards in place. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf, light foxing to some pages. Record # 404908

John Murray, 1882. Decorative cloth cover; engravings throughout. previous owner's name on front endpaper.spine faded and stained with slight tear at top third. a nice copy with tight binding and clean interior. hardcover. Good.

London: Wm. S. Orr & Company. Very Good+. 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. The leather is just starting to crack a bit at the upper hinges. ; Bound in full leather, with gilt decorations on the spine & cover, and aeg (all edges gilt). 25 beautiful steel engravings, and many other illustrations. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 458 pages .

London: William S. Orr and Co. 1844. Large 8vo. xxiv, 356 pp, illustrated in b/w with 350 engravings on wood and 28 on steel, a brown polished calf binding with red morocco title label and gilt lettering and designs to spine, an ink mark to top of pages by spine and rough corner edges, some foxing to pages. . Very Good. Full Calf. 1844.

London: John Murray, 1868. Fifth Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped leather. Very Good. Engravings & woodcuts. Small quarto (9 7/8" x 6 3/4" x 1 7/8"), full red Morocco by Sotheran with five raised hubs on spine plus gilt lettering on spine and gilt detailing on borders & inner dentelles; profusely illustrated with B&W reproductions by prominent artists (Copley, Fielding, F. Creswick, D. Cox, Jun., Harvey, Paul Huet, Meissonier, Sargent, Daubigny, Jacques, et al.) of classical and period images: steel-engraved frontispiece & vignette on title page, 15 full-page steel-engraved plates (including 4 detailed maps), & more than 350 wood engravings including in-text elaborate headpieces & many vignettes; fore-edge B&W painting of the West End view of the Acropolis of Athens; all edges of pages gilded [a.e.g.]; xxiv + 452 pages. Weight: 3 lbs. 11.4 oz. Christopher Wordsworth (1807 - 1885) was an English bishop of the Anglican Church, Master of Trinity, athlete,… Read More

London, Murray, 1859. . New edition. 8vo, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title page, 19 engraved plates, numerous wood engravings, contemporary tan morocco gilt, covers with Brighton College prize stamp, lightly rubbed, a very good copy. travel2023 'A beautifully produced work' (Blackmer). An attractive copy of this richly illustrated and wide ranging work on Greece. Cf. Blackmer 1841.

John Murry, c.1859. In very good condition. Plates are clean and crisp.. Edition: A New Edition , Binding: Original speckled cloth boards with blind tooled rules and design and a tooled gilt insignia. Tooled gilt design on spine. , Size: 8 Vo (170 x 250mm), , Illustration: Illustrated with a profusion of wood engravings and 17 steel plates depicting important Greek sceneries, artwork, and sites., Pages: P. Frontis, Title, Title Printer info, Dedication, Preface (v-vii), advertisement (2), Contents (xi-xxiii), 1-452., Category: Book Antiquities; Book Europe Greece;

London: William S. Orr and Co., 1853. A fine copy, plates and text are clean and crisp, bound in decorative period gilt full calf.. Edition: New Edition., Binding: Contemporary full tan calf with dotted blind border and double gilt lined border with floral gilt corner-pieces, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt floral motifs, title label in red morocco on two, gilt floral motifs on board edges, blind floral motifs on dentelles, edges and endpapers marbled. , Notes: This is a handsome and picturesque plate book with views of Greek landscapes and ruins, described by eminent English scholar, Christopher Wordsworth. He was the nephew of the famous Romantic poet, William Wordsworth., Size: 4to., Illustration: Extra-illustrated with all steel-engraved plates as called for, plus a plate entitled “Plains of Argos”, bringing the total to 27., Pages: P. (4), blank, frontis, engr. title, blank, title, blank, preface iii-v, dedication (3), bibliography ix-x, contents xi-xvii,… Read More