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, F.S.A.

A new edition revised with “notices of recent discoveries” by H.F. Tozer, M.A. With 22 steel engraved black and white full-page plates (including 4 maps), 12 full-page wood engraved plates and a great profusion (well over 300) of wood engravings throughout the text. 8vo, publisher's original medium green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine with a black decorative device, and a decorative border at the head and tail, upper cover lettered in gilt and framed with fancy decorative border with a black Greek vase in the center, t.e.g. xxviii, 460, 32 ads. A lovely, clean copy with minor bumping at the head and tail of spine.

Edizione: a very handsome copy, illustrated throughout. “the [roman] emperor hadrian possessed a magnificent villa at tivoli, of which the ruins still remain. in it he endeavoured to perpetuate his own recollections of greece. he there erected buildings, to which he gave names poecile and lycëum; by their side he planted the grove of an academy, and he carried the stream of an ideal penëus through the pleasant vale of an imitative tempe.<br> “the traveller in greece constructs in his own mind such a villas as his. he furnishes it with the beautiful scenes which he once visited in that country; he refreshes it with clear waters and cool shades of a tempe; he decorates it with the fair porticos of a poecile, a lycëum, and an academy.<br> “but his recollections of greece, like the buildings of hadrian, are liable to fall into decay. the author of the following pages has, therefore, attempted to give a permanence to his own reminiscences by constructing a humbler tivoli, in which he hopes that others may perhaps emjoy some share of that pleasure which was felt of old by the greek traveller in the villa of hadrian.”<br> a beautifully illustrated, exhaustive examination of greek art, geography, and architecture.