Greece.- Dodwell (Edward) Views in Greece, from Drawings, first edition, deluxe issue, title with aquatint vignette, 30 superb hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell, T. Fielding, F.C. Lewis and others after Dodwell and Pomardi, plates mounted on thick card with printed captions and imprints on slips pasted to verso of mounts, each with explanatory leaf in English and French, tissue guards, to which offsetting, spotting and browning to mounts, in a few cases affecting plates as well, the same and some light uniform browning to multiple text leaves, contemporary straight-grain red morocco, gilt panelling in line and foliate patterns to corners, gilt dentelles of a vine pattern, covers capped in metal, upper joint broken at ends (but holding in central portion), lower torn at head, wear to extremities, [Abbey, Travel 130; Atabey 357; Blackmer 493; Colas 876; Weber I, 1110], folio, Rodwell and Martin, 1821.

⁂ One of the most famous colour-plate books on Greece, and an essential part of any library of Greek monuments and topography. Edward Dodwell (1776/7- 1836), traveller and archaeologist, made several tours of Greece, the first with Sir William Gell in 1801 and another more extensive tour in 1805-6 with the artist Simone Pomardi. Originally issued in parts intended to illustrate Dodwell's Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece of 1819, but the project became too expensive and this selection of 30 plates was issued separately.

Provenance: Sir John Wolfe Barry K.C.B [bookplate].