Narrative of a Journey in the Morea. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1823. 8vo. x, 411, [3] pp. Instructions to binder present. With 9 lithographed plates, and numerous text illustrations. Modern half-calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Light foxing to plates and facing text, heavier to frontispiece and title, spine lightly sunned. Provenance: P.G. Skinos (bookplate); ex-library stamps. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CAREFULLY WRITTEN TRAVEL ACCOUNT. "These travels were actually undertaken in 1805-6, but Gell decided to publish them in 1823 in order to combat the growing philhellenic sentimentality about Greece and the Greeks. He wanted to show what Greece was really like before the revolution" (Blackmer 665). Contominas 282; Droulia 434; Weber I:119.
Narrative of a Journey in the Morea. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1823. 8vo. x, 411, [3] pp. Instructions to binder present. With 9 lithographed plates, and numerous text illustrations. Modern half-calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Light foxing to plates and facing text, heavier to frontispiece and title, spine lightly sunned. Provenance: P.G. Skinos (bookplate); ex-library stamps. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CAREFULLY WRITTEN TRAVEL ACCOUNT. "These travels were actually undertaken in 1805-6, but Gell decided to publish them in 1823 in order to combat the growing philhellenic sentimentality about Greece and the Greeks. He wanted to show what Greece was really like before the revolution" (Blackmer 665). Contominas 282; Droulia 434; Weber I:119.
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