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Christopher Wordsworth : Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. / By Christopher Wordsworth D.D. / Canon of Westminster; Late Fellow of Trinity College, and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge; Head-Master of Barrow School; Member of the Archaeological Institute at Rome; and Author of “A Journal of a Residence in Athens and Attica,” “Inscriptions at Pompeii,” etc. /A New Edition, Carefully Revised. / With Numerous Engravings on Wood and Steel, Illustrative of the Scener, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country, by Coply Fielding, F. Creswick, D. Cox, Jun., Harvey, Paul Huet, Meissonier, Sargent, Daubigny, Jaques, and Other Artists. / And A History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, Illustrated by George Scharf, Junr., Esq

William S. Orr and Co., London, 1853

Contemporary full tan calf with dotted blind border and double gilt lined border with floral gilt corner-pieces, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt floral motifs, title label in red morocco on two, gilt floral motifs on board edges, blind floral motifs on dentelles, edges and endpapers marbled. , A fine copy, plates and text are clean and crisp, bound in decorative period gilt full calf., 4to., P. (4), blank, frontis, engr. title, blank, title, blank, preface iii-v, dedication (3), bibliography ix-x, contents xi-xvii, illustrations, xviii-xxiv, 1-458, (4)., Extra-illustrated with all steel-engraved plates as called for, plus a plate entitled “Plains of Argos”, bringing the total to 27.

This is a handsome and picturesque plate book with views of Greek landscapes and ruins, described by eminent English scholar, Christopher Wordsworth. He was the nephew of the famous Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.

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