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Wilkins, William.
Estimate
1,800 - 2,400 GBP
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Description
- The Antiquities of Magna Graecia. Cambridge: Longman, Hurst, Orme, and Rees, 1807
first edition, folio (550 x 355mm.), engraved vignette on title, 73 aquatint or engraved plates, one double-page, 14 engraved or aquatint illustrations in text, modern half calf over nineteenth-century cloth retaining original spine (new labels), some spotting
Literature
Blackmer 1797; Abbey, Travel 128; BAL RIBA 3651
Catalogue Note
"[This work] was immensely influential, and became one of the keystones of the Greek Revival, in which Wilkins was to be a leading protagonist" (BAL RIBA).