[Stuart, James and Nicholas Revett]

Estimate

600 - 900 GBP

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Description

The Elgin Marbles from the Temple of Minerva at Athens... selected from "Stuart's and Revett's Antiquities of Athens." To which are added the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, respecting the Earl of Elgin's collection of sculptured marbles, and an historical account of the temple. London: J. Moyes for J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1816

first edition, folio (382 x 276mm.), engraved frontispiece and 61 double-page and/or folding engraved plates, original boards with modern calf spine and corners, a few plates spotted, others slightly spotted, boards somewhat rubbed and soiled, new endpapers

Provenance

S. Hadland, inscription

Literature

not in Blackmer

Catalogue Note

rare. This work was not present in the Blackmer collection though an unillustrated copy of the "Report of the Select committee..." was included (Blackmer 740).

The Select Committee was appointed to enquire whether the collection should be purchased "on behalf of the Public" and this work was published in order to "gratify the curiosity of the Public, by selecting from the second and fourth volumes of Stuart and Revett's Antiquities of Athens all the Plates which represent the remarkably fine Sculpture of the celebrated Parthenon" which had recently become "national property" (advertisement).