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Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands.

Stock Code 106350

Edinburgh, Constable, 1820

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Published after the author's return from an extended tour of Italy and Greece between 1816 and 1818. Williams trained as a landscape painter and also held an exhibition of Greek watercolours in Edinburgh in 1822.

First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, xxii, [ii], 399, [iii]; xiv, [ii], 437 pp., 20 engraved plates by Lizars after drawings by the author, contemporary polished calf gilt, chip to lower spine vol I, lacking 3 labels, marbled edges, offsetting from plates to text, light browning to some plates, joints cracked but firm, a good set.

Pine-Coffin 816/10; Legrand & Pernot 983; Not in Navari, Blackmer, but in the Blackmer auction sale, lot 1095.
Provenance

Provenance: Pericles Hantzis, renowned Greek bibliophile (bookplate).

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Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands.

WILLIAMS, Hugh.

Stock code: 106350

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