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WILLIAMS, Hugh William 'Grecian' (1773-1829). Select Views in Greece. London: Longman, Rees. Orme, Brown & Green and Adam Black in Edinburgh, 1829. 2 volumes in 1, 8° (266 x 178mm). Half-title. 64 steel-engraved plates after Williams. Contemporary purple morocco tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (light scuffing to extremities, inner hinges slightly split). Provenance: Georgiou Zarifi (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Cf. Blackmer 1811 (2° issue). -- Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands. Edinburgh: George Ramsay for Archibald Constable & Co. and Hurst, Robinson & Co. of London, 1820. 2 volumes, 8° (211 x 127mm). Half-titles. 20 plates (17 engraved, 2 folding plates of 'nature-printed' leaves, one of engraved music). (Most plates spotted.) Contemporary blue half calf, spines gilt (extremities very slightly scuffed). Provenance: Stephen Eaton (armorial bookplate); Miss Waldie, Hendersyde Park (book-label). FIRST EDITION. (3)