Ruins of Athens, with Remains and other valuable Antiquities in Greece. London: For Robert Sayer 1759. Large folio, early nineteenth-century half brown morocco gilt and marbled boards, spine rubbed, corners and board edges worn, frontispiece and last three plates browned. JOHN FLAXMAN'S COPY, title-leaf, preface leaf, followed by 32 pp. letterpress, 26 engraved plates, comrpising a frontispiece plan of Athens with an elevation of the Propylaea, by T. Miller, 12 engraved views of Athens and 14 architectural engravings, these 26 unsigned except for the Sayer imprint on nos. 1 to 12. Rare: not listed in B.M.C.; N.U.C. lists under title and locates five copies. (Milne)

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Ruins of Athens, with Remains and other valuable Antiquities in Greece. London: For Robert Sayer 1759. Large folio, early nineteenth-century half brown morocco gilt and marbled boards, spine rubbed, corners and board edges worn, frontispiece and last three plates browned. JOHN FLAXMAN'S COPY, title-leaf, preface leaf, followed by 32 pp. letterpress, 26 engraved plates, comrpising a frontispiece plan of Athens with an elevation of the Propylaea, by T. Miller, 12 engraved views of Athens and 14 architectural engravings, these 26 unsigned except for the Sayer imprint on nos. 1 to 12. Rare: not listed in B.M.C.; N.U.C. lists under title and locates five copies. (Milne)

Provenance: John Flaxman (1755-1826), sculptor and draughtsman, maroon morocco gilt book-label with a signature on paper pasted down; the Earl of Onslow, signature on fly-leaf.