Makriyannis, General–Zographos, Panayotis.

first edition, number 113 of 140 copies, oblong folio (515 x 665mm.), 24 coloured facsimile plates after Zographos, with a livraison of descriptive text by Frédéric Boissonas and Johannes Gennadius in printed wrappers and containing three photogravure plates, housed in a large portfolio with printed label showing the Greek flag on upper cover, ties

Henry Blackmer, book label (included in the sale of his library, lot 1341, but not in the bibliography by Navari)

see H.A. Lidderdale, Makriyannis: The memoirs of General Makriyannis 1797-1864 (1966)

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The work is a facsimile of the celebrated series of paintings commissioned by General Makriyannis sometime during the 1830s from the painter Panayotis Zographos. The subjects vividly depict episodes from the Greek war of Independence, the last being a memorial list of philhellenes active in Greece during the war. The text describes the events shown in each of the plates, and also the acquisition of the originals in 1909 by Gennadius, Greek ambassador in London in the early 1920s.