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EDWARD DODWELL (1767-1832)
A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806. London: Rodwell & Martin, 1819. 2 volumes, 4° (273 x 215mm). 1p. errata at the end of vol.II. Folding engraved map, 66 engraved plates (2 hand-coloured, 6 double-page), numerous wood-engraved illustrations. (Margin spotted of the second hand-coloured plate [facing p.197 in vol.II], some browning of other plates.) Contemporary brown morocco gilt, covers with gilt double-fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by fillets in gilt and blind, the second and third compartments lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (spines slightly faded).
A FINE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION. ''Dodwell's travels in Greece covered two periods; he left Trieste in April 1801 in company with Sir William Gell, touring the Ionian Islands and the Troad. later, in 1805, while a prisoner-of-war of the French, he obtained permission to travel, and, accompanied by the Italian artist Simone Pomardi, he toured mainland Greece and the Ionian Islands' (Blackmer p.108). Atabey 356; Blackmer 492; Brunet II,788; Weber 62. (2)
A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806. London: Rodwell & Martin, 1819. 2 volumes, 4° (273 x 215mm). 1p. errata at the end of vol.II. Folding engraved map, 66 engraved plates (2 hand-coloured, 6 double-page), numerous wood-engraved illustrations. (Margin spotted of the second hand-coloured plate [facing p.197 in vol.II], some browning of other plates.) Contemporary brown morocco gilt, covers with gilt double-fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by fillets in gilt and blind, the second and third compartments lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (spines slightly faded).
A FINE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION. ''Dodwell's travels in Greece covered two periods; he left Trieste in April 1801 in company with Sir William Gell, touring the Ionian Islands and the Troad. later, in 1805, while a prisoner-of-war of the French, he obtained permission to travel, and, accompanied by the Italian artist Simone Pomardi, he toured mainland Greece and the Ionian Islands' (Blackmer p.108). Atabey 356; Blackmer 492; Brunet II,788; Weber 62. (2)
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