Worsley, Sir Richard.

Second edition, 2 volumes, folio (360 x 255mm.), text in English and Italian, engraved portrait frontispieces, 150 engraved plates, a number double-page or folding, illustrations in the text, contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with broad gilt foliate borders within 6-line gilt fillet borders, spines gilt in compartments, gilt edges, occasional light spotting, binding rubbed

Charlotte Augusta Bury, ownership inscription in first volume

Blackmer 1842

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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"Having wintered in Rome, [Worsley] left the city in February 1785 for an extensive journey in the Levant, accompanied by Willey Reveley as his draughtsman. He reached Athens in May 1785, then travelled extensively in the Greek interior, going on to Rhodes, Cairo, and Constantinople. In 1786 he made an excursion to Sigeum and Troy, and also visited the Crimea. He returned to Rome in 1787, and went home during 1788. During his travels Worsley made a remarkable collection of statues, reliefs, and gems, which he arranged at his house at Appuldurcombe. It included the most important collection of Greek marbles yet seen in England. In 1798 he issued the first part (dated 1794) of the 'Museum Worsleianum', a sumptuous illustrated description of his collection. The cost of part one, exclusive of binding, was a staggering £2,887 4s. Part two came out in 1802... It indicates a sensitive, informed man of taste, as much interested in the history and provenance of a work as in its aesthetic qualities" (ODNB).