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Wilkins, William.
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- The Antiquities of Magna Graecia. Cambridge: Printed at the Universirty Press by Richard Watts and published by Longman, Hurst, [&c.], 1807
first edition, folio (560 x 355mm.), engraved vignette on title, 73 aquatint or engraved plates, one double-page, 14 engraved or aquatint illustrations in text, contemporary diced half calf, spotted, binding slightly worn, rebacked
Provenance
Earl Bathurst, nineteenth-century book label; "Artium Genio", modern book label
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).