Item #9407 GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition. D. D. Wordsworth, Christopher.
GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition
GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition
GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition
GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition
GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition
GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition
GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition

GREECE,; Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical / By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country. / and A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, By George Scharf, F.S.A. Fifth Edition

London: John Murray, 1868. Engravings & woodcuts. Fifth Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped leather. Small quarto (9 7/8" x 6 3/4" x 1 7/8"), full red Morocco by Sotheran with five raised hubs on spine plus gilt lettering on spine and gilt detailing on borders & inner dentelles; profusely illustrated with B&W reproductions by prominent artists (Copley, Fielding, F. Creswick, D. Cox, Jun., Harvey, Paul Huet, Meissonier, Sargent, Daubigny, Jacques, et al.) of classical and period images: steel-engraved frontispiece & vignette on title page, 15 full-page steel-engraved plates (including 4 detailed maps), & more than 350 wood engravings including in-text elaborate headpieces & many vignettes; fore-edge B&W painting of the West End view of the Acropolis of Athens; all edges of pages gilded [a.e.g.]; xxiv + 452 pages. Weight: 3 lbs. 11.4 oz. Very Good. Item #9407

Christopher Wordsworth (1807 - 1885) was an English bishop of the Anglican Church, Master of Trinity, athlete, intellectual, man of letters, author. He was also nephew of poet William Wordsworth for whom he served as literary executor. Christopher toured Greece during 1832-1833, after which he published works on its topography and archaeology, the most famous of which is "Wordsworth's" Greece (1839).

Splendid illustrations comprise around three hundred and fifty engravings on wood and several on steel (also four maps), illustrative of the scenery, architecture, and costume of that country. By distinguished artists like Copley, Fielding, F. Creswick, D. Cox, Jun., Harvey, Paul Huet, Meissonier, Sargent, Daubigny, Jacques, and other artists.

Superb illustrated grand tour of ancient and 18th - 19th century Greece. Solid handsomely bound copy with attractive fore-edge painting of the Acropolis and adjacent city. Moderate shelf- and edge-wear most evident at head and foot of spine & corners. Internally, pages clean with very light and unfiorm age-toning. Steel-engraved plates retain excellent definition and are without foxing. The woodcuts are present in magnificent profusion. Previous owner's large ownership writing "A. J. Olding from I.B. Hallam" dated 1870 on front endpaper. No internal markings or marginalia.

Price: $395.00