Wordsworth, Christopher. - GREECE: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical.

William S. Orr and Co., 1840. Large 8vo. xxvii + 356pp. Engraved frontis., additional engraved t.p., 26 engraved plates, numerous ills. Some light browning, contemporary double gilt rule edged morocco, gilt lettering and detail to head and tail of spine, corners and spine rubbed, some surface loss to spine, a.e.g. ¶ First published in 1839. Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), bishop of Lincoln. ODNB ‘... 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 ... 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 ... Two books of a pictorial and descriptive kind on Greece ... [including the above] followed his return ...’

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