Stuart, James and Nicholas Revett.

Second edition, 4 volumes, folio (469 x 308mm.), engraved vignette on title-pages, 189 engraved plates (some folding), engraved vignettes within text, the beginning of volume 4 bound at the end of volume 3, modern half black morocco, lacking title-page and table of contents of vol.3, spotting, edges of a few plates frayed, one plate detached in vol.1, plate 2 in vol.4 torn and repaired

Blackmer 1617 (first edition)

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A new edition of the first scientific survey of Athens's surviving classical buildings. Stuart and Revett carried out their research between March 1751 and January 1754: Stuart focussing on the topographical views whilst Revett carried out the measured drawings. Their work, first published between 1762 and 1816, was influential in the Greek revivalist style in English architecture at the end of the eighteenth century (Stuart's own work for Lord Anson's house in St James's Square being at the forefront of the movement) and in the widespread philhellenism of the period.