Hess, Peter von.

First edition, folio (557 x 430mm.), lithographed title and dedication leaf printed in gold, tinted lithographed pictorial title and 39 plates, by J.B. Kuhn after Peter von Hess, all within decorative borders incorporating captions in Greek, English, French and German, leaf of descriptive letterpress at end in same four languages, nineteenth-century half morocco, modern cloth fold-over box, leather label on spine lettered in gilt "Album of Greek Heroism", [not in Blackmer, Droulia or Contominas], one plate (Bobolina) supplied from another copy (slightly smaller, slight browning, loose), last 3 plates with very minor repair work at extreme edge of margin, letterpress leaf silked (strengthened), binding somewhat worn, rebacked retaining most of original spine 

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One of the most celebrated collections of illustrations relating to the events of the Greek War of Independence.