Friday, April 21, 2023

1889 The Antiquities of Athens And Other Monuments of Greece As Measured and Delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. F.S.A., and Nicholas Revett Painters and Architects

1889
The Antiquities of Athens
And Other Monuments of Greece
As Measured and Delineated by
James Stuart F.R.S. F.S.A., and Nicholas Revett
Painters and Architects

Seventy-One Plates

Rare Antique Book ~ Gilt-Tooled Leather Binding ~ Engravings ~ Folding Plates ~ Architecture ~ Plans ~ Architectural Details ~ Ancient Gods ~ Mausoleums ~ Tombs ~ Ruins ~ Sacred Structures ~ Holy Sites ~ Worship ~ Mythology ~ Acropolis ~ Gate of the Agora ~ Ionic Temple on the Ilissus ~ Tower of the Winds ~ Choragic Monument of Lysicrates ~ Pantheon of Hadrian ~ Parthenon ~ Erechtheum ~ Erechtheion ~ Temple of Athena Polias ~ Odeum of Regilla ~ Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus ~ Propylaea ~ Temple of Theseus ~ Temple of Jupiter Olympus ~ Arch of Hadrian ~ Monument of Philopappos ~ Temple at Corinth ~ Incantada ~ Island of Delos ~ Pnyx ~ Ruin at Solonika ~ Bookplate of Noted Philologist and Professor of Latin at Amherst College, Francis Howard Fobes by Stern Gr. Paris

Publisher:
London: George Bell and Sons, 1889.

Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited.

Features:
Measures 7.1 x 4.6 inches.
Fine three-quarter gilt-tooled red morocco leather binding with marbled paper over boards.
Marbled textblock edges.
Marbled endpapers.
71 intricately engraved architectural plates including several folding plates.
149 pages plus Chronological Index page.

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