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Garston, Edgar.
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description
- Greece Revisited and Sketches in Lower Egypt in 1840 with thirty-six hours of a campaign in Greece in 1825. London: Saunders & Otley, 1842
first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (216 x 124mm.), half-title in volume 2 (not called for in volume 1), 3 lithographed plates, contemporary calf with gilt stamp of the Signet Library on sides, nealy rebacked retaining original labels
Provenance
Signet Library, Edinburgh, gilt stamp on covers; Sefik E. Atabey, book label
Literature
Blackmer 652; Hilmy I, p.253; Weber I, 339; Atabey 478
Catalogue Note
An adventurer and philhellene, Garston first visited Greece in 1825 and an extract from his journal of that period is included at the end of volume 2. In 1840 he returned to Greece and the present work gives an account of life in Athens and the islands compared with his impressions in 1825.