Wordsworth, Christopher. - GREECE Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical. With Numerous Engravings Illustrative of the Scenery, Architecture, Costume and Fine Arts of That Country. And a History of the Characteristics of Greek Art by George Scharf.

John Murray, 1882. New Ed. Revised, With Notices of Recent Discoveries, by H.F. Tozer. Large 8vo. xxviii + 460pp. Frontis., additional engraved t.p., 19 engraved plates and maps, numerous wood engravings including some full page. Light browning, waterstain across head of some leaves, prize bookplate, inner gilt turn-ins, original blind ruled morocco with gilt armorial device to upper board, dec. gilt spine sl. sunned, corners sl. bumped, minor wear, a.e.g. ¶ Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), Bishop of Lincoln. ‘... He began to travel in Italy and Greece and made his mark in the field of inscriptions and exploration: in 1832 he went to Paestum and to Pompeii, where he was the first to decipher the graffiti. In Sicily he developed an interest in Theocritus, the subject of later writing in 1844. During a prolonged visit to Greece and the Ionian Islands he made a conjecture as to the site of Dodona which was later corroborated. He was the first Englishman to be presented to King Otho. Passing over the heights of Mount Parnes in deep snow, he and his party were attacked by brigands; Wordsworth was injured in the shoulder by a stiletto, but managed to escape capture Two books of a pictorial and descriptive kind on Greece (1839) and Athens and Attica (1836) followed his return ...’ ODNB

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