Greece Pictorial, Descriptive, & Historical.With upwards of three hundred and fifty engravings on wood and twenty-eight on steel, illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country.Second Edition.

WORDSWORTH, Christopher.

Edité par London William S. Orr and Co. ., 1844

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4to. (26 x 17.5 cm). pp.xxiv+356. Contemporary full tan calf by Webb (Liverpool), sides framed with two gilt fillets enclosing fleuron devices to each corner, spine with raised bands and richly gilt-decorated compartments, brown morocco label, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt and gauffered edges. 28 steel-engraved plates (with letter-press titles), profusely illustrated with numerous wood engravings in the text, all collated and complete as called for. Binding slightly dulled and lightly rubbed along edges, contents clean and sound with only a few odd spots, generally a very good copy in a handsome binding with particularly nice gauffered edges. First published in 1839, the plates untitled. Wordsworth (1807-1885) was the younger son of Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and the younger brother of the poet William), and was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won numerous college and university prizes, including the first chancellor's medal for classical studies. Upon graduating in 1830 he was immediately elected a fellow of Trinity and subsequently an assistant college tutor. His distinction in classical languages was such that he was later singled out to translate into Greek and Latin messages from the English episcopate to leaders of foreign churches. He began to travel in Italy and Greece and made his mark in the field of inscriptions and exploration: in 1832 he went to Paestum and to Pompeii, where he was the first to decipher the graffiti. In Sicily he developed an interest in Theocritus, the subject of later writing in 1844. During a prolonged visit to Greece and the Ionian Islands he made a conjecture as to the site of Dodona which was later corroborated. He was the first Englishman to be presented to King Otho' (ODNB). Shortly after his return to England, Wordsworth was ordained as a priest (1835), and was appointed Public Orator in Cambridge in 1836 and (in the same year) Headmaster of Harrow School. 1836 also saw the publication of Wordsworth's first book based on his visit to Greece entitled Athens and Attica: A Journal of a Residence There, a 'very interesting and detailed description of the Attic peninsula' (Blackmer 1839), which was reprinted in 1837 and then followed by the present work first published in 1839. (Cf. Blackmer, 1840).

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• Titre: Greece Pictorial, Descriptive, & Historical.With upwards of three hundred and fifty engravings on wood and twenty-eight on steel, illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume, and Fine Arts of that Country.Second Edition.
• Éditeur: London William S. Orr and Co. .
• Date de parution: 1844
• Reliure: Couverture souple
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