Xxiii, 356 Pp. First Printing, 1839. Quarter Calf, Calf Tips, Over Marbled Boards, Marbled Endpapers, And With Matching Marbling To Edges Of Page Block. Captions Printed On The Tissue Guards. Binding Is Early Or Original, Wear But Nicely Refurbished, New Morocco Spine Label, Hinges Intact And Solid. Contents Very Clean, Light Foxing To A Few Plates But Almost All Are Entirely Clean And With Clean, Intact Tissue Guards. Wordsworth Was The Youngest Son Of The Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Master Of Trinity And A Nephew Of The Poet William Wordsworth. He Was The Younger Brother Of The Classical Scholar John Wordsworth And Charles Wordsworth, Bishop Of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld And Dunblane. He Was Educated At Winchester And Trinity, Cambridge. Like His Brother Charles, He Was Distinguished As An Athlete As Well As For Scholarship. He Won The Chancellor's Gold Medal For Poetry In 1827 And 1828. He Became Senior Classic, And Was Elected A Fellow And Tutor Of Trinity In 1830; Shortly Afterwards He Took Holy Orders. He Went For A Tour In Greece In 1832-1833, And Published Various Works On Its Topography And Archaeology, The Most Famous Of Which Is "Wordsworth's" Greece (1839). In 1836 He Became Public Orator At Cambridge, And In The Same Year Was Appointed Headmaster Of Harrow, A Post He Resigned In 1844. In 1844 Sir Robert Peel Appointed Him As A Canon Of Westminster (1844?1869). He Was Vicar Of Stanford In The Vale, Berkshire (1850?1869) And Archdeacon Of Westminster (1864?1869). In 1869 Benjamin Disraeli Appointed Him Bishop Of Lincoln Which He Retained Until His Death In 1885.

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Greece. Pictorial, Descriptive And Historical

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William S. Orr & Co., London

Date de parution

1839

Langue

anglais

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Very Good

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