Williams, Hugh W.

first edition, 2 volumes in one, large paper copy, folio (360 x 248mm.), 64 engraved proof plates after Williams on india paper, mounted, nineteenth-century green morocco gilt by Clarke and Bedford, gilt edges, plates offset onto text, very occasional slight spotting, lacking half-titles, list of plates and one leaf of text describing a plate (see footnote)

Charles Tennant, bookplate

Blackmer 1811; Contominas 798 (large 8vo format); Weber I, 1116; Atabey 1337 (4to format)

Hugh Williams (1773-1829), a Scottish landscape painter, returned from an extended tour of Greece and Italy in 1818. He made many paintings of Greece, which earned him the sobriquet 'Grecian Williams'. The work was published in parts, beginning in 1824, and in a number of formats in 1829 (see references below). This copy is the deluxe folio edition, possibly bound from parts (which might explain the missing explanatory text leaf - the folio Blackmer copy was similarly lacking one leaf). See illustration on previous page.