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YORKE, Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. Athenian Letters: or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War. London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798. 2 volumes. 4to (327 x 251mm). Engraved portrait of the author after Romney, large folding map and 13 portraits, half-titles (all portraits somewhat foxed).
Contemporary green straight-grain morocco by Henry Walther with his ticket, spines gilt in six compartments, two single fillet borders round sides with floral decoration at corners, inner gilt dentelle,
PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on half-title of volume I: 'With Lord Harwickes Compliments'. LARGE PAPER COPY.
'Henry Walther was one of the numerous German binders who were prominent in the London West End trade of the second half of the eighteenth century, having been attracted to England by the lavish expenditure on morocco bindings of the Roxburghe age', Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding p.182
Contemporary green straight-grain morocco by Henry Walther with his ticket, spines gilt in six compartments, two single fillet borders round sides with floral decoration at corners, inner gilt dentelle,
PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on half-title of volume I: 'With Lord Harwickes Compliments'. LARGE PAPER COPY.
'Henry Walther was one of the numerous German binders who were prominent in the London West End trade of the second half of the eighteenth century, having been attracted to England by the lavish expenditure on morocco bindings of the Roxburghe age', Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding p.182