3 volumes. vii, [1, blank], xii, 587, [1], [4]; vii, [1], 537 pp. Folding engraved map, sixty-six engraved plates (two hand-colored, six double-page), and forty-eight wood engravings in text. (4to) 27x21.2 cm. (10¾x8½"), period polished calf, rebacked, gilt-topped raised bands, all edges marbled. First Edition.
The work is an encyclopedic, comprehensive survey of both ancient and modern Greece, and includes over one hundred accomplished illustrations of landscapes, architecture, ruins, and artifacts. "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).Blackmer 492.
Condition:
Boards with some abrading; occasional light foxing, primarily to blank margins and rectos of plates, some offsetting of plates, stain to the middle of the text block of Volume 2; very good.