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FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST MICHAEL KATZEV
The Complete Antiquities of Athens
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, 1762-1830
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The Complete Antiquities of Athens
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, 1762-1830
STUART, James (1713-1788) and REVETT, Nicholas (1720-1804). The Antiquities of Athens. London: John Haberkorn and John Nichols (vols 2-3) and T. Bensley (vol. 4), 1762 [but some sheets after 1808]-1816.
A complete set of “the source book for the later Greek revival in England” (Fowler), with engravings by a young William Blake. Stuart and Revett traveled to Greece in 1750 to make the drawings which would eventually become this work, published in four volumes plus supplement over the course of nearly seventy years which saw the deaths of many of its authors, artists, and editors. This work was the first scholarly survey on Greece of its kind—and is also the first published work to discuss polychromy in Greek sculpture. The book's arduous publication history was satirized by William Hogarth, who mocked it with his engraving Five Orders of Periwigs...to be Published in about 17 Years." Four plates in volume three were executed by William Blake, then apprenticed to engraver James Basire. This set includes "the silent new edition of parts of volumes I-III" which Josiah Taylor had reprinted in conjunction with the publication of the fourth volume (RIBA). Complete sets are rare at auction. RIBA 3183-7; Fowler 340; Cicognara 2713.
Four volumes, folio (529 x 359mm). Errata leaves in vol. 1 and 3; 2 engraved portrait frontispieces; 313 engraved plates, some folding or double-page; 4 engraved maps, some folding and one of which hand-colored in outline; many engraved vignettes and in-text illustrations (plate 29 in vol. 2 omitted as usual and according to binder’s instructions; pl. 1 in vol. 3, ch. 2 on smaller sheet, as usual; toning to some pages, some spotting throughout occasionally affecting plates). Contemporary diced calf, stamped and gilt, edges gilt (rebacked). Provenance: Robert Peel, Drayton Manor (1788-1850, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; armorial bookplate).
[With:] Antiquities of Athens and other Places in Greece, Sicily, Etc., Supplementary to the Antiquities of Athens. London: Priestley and Weale, 1830. Folio (528 x 362mm). Half title and subscribers list. 2 engraved portraits, 52 engraved plates, in-text illustrations (some toning, spotting and staining to plates). Contemporary calf, gilt and blindstamped (wear at joints and edges).
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, 1762-1830
STUART, James (1713-1788) and REVETT, Nicholas (1720-1804). The Antiquities of Athens. London: John Haberkorn and John Nichols (vols 2-3) and T. Bensley (vol. 4), 1762 [but some sheets after 1808]-1816.
A complete set of “the source book for the later Greek revival in England” (Fowler), with engravings by a young William Blake. Stuart and Revett traveled to Greece in 1750 to make the drawings which would eventually become this work, published in four volumes plus supplement over the course of nearly seventy years which saw the deaths of many of its authors, artists, and editors. This work was the first scholarly survey on Greece of its kind—and is also the first published work to discuss polychromy in Greek sculpture. The book's arduous publication history was satirized by William Hogarth, who mocked it with his engraving Five Orders of Periwigs...to be Published in about 17 Years." Four plates in volume three were executed by William Blake, then apprenticed to engraver James Basire. This set includes "the silent new edition of parts of volumes I-III" which Josiah Taylor had reprinted in conjunction with the publication of the fourth volume (RIBA). Complete sets are rare at auction. RIBA 3183-7; Fowler 340; Cicognara 2713.
Four volumes, folio (529 x 359mm). Errata leaves in vol. 1 and 3; 2 engraved portrait frontispieces; 313 engraved plates, some folding or double-page; 4 engraved maps, some folding and one of which hand-colored in outline; many engraved vignettes and in-text illustrations (plate 29 in vol. 2 omitted as usual and according to binder’s instructions; pl. 1 in vol. 3, ch. 2 on smaller sheet, as usual; toning to some pages, some spotting throughout occasionally affecting plates). Contemporary diced calf, stamped and gilt, edges gilt (rebacked). Provenance: Robert Peel, Drayton Manor (1788-1850, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; armorial bookplate).
[With:] Antiquities of Athens and other Places in Greece, Sicily, Etc., Supplementary to the Antiquities of Athens. London: Priestley and Weale, 1830. Folio (528 x 362mm). Half title and subscribers list. 2 engraved portraits, 52 engraved plates, in-text illustrations (some toning, spotting and staining to plates). Contemporary calf, gilt and blindstamped (wear at joints and edges).
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