Antoine-Marie CHENAVARD

First edition illustrated with 81 engraved plates, drawn by Antoine-Marie Chenavard and engraved on steel by various artists, comprising: a route map, a plan of Athens, and 79 plates numbered I to LXXV, including plates XXVIIIbis, XLVIIIbis (these two not listed in the table), LVIbis, and LVIIbis.

Cf. Blackmer 334. Atabey 230. Brunet II, 1831.

Each plate is accompanied by a leaf of explanatory text.

Plates LIX and LX are transposed in this copy.

Bound in modern half green sheep with corners, spine with four raised bands decorated with black fillets, black sheep lettering-piece and author’s name, sides covered in almond-green felted paper, a scratch to the lower cover.

The leaves are mounted on cloth guards, the preliminary leaves with some marginal soiling, a few light dampstains in the margins of certain pages, all leaves with marginal sunning.

First edition of this rare album illustrated with 15 outline-engraved plates, each protected by a tissue guard and accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, including a reproduction of the author's portrait drawn by Ingres in Rome in 1818 (cf. Castiglione, p. 226. Only three copies listed in the CCF: BnF, INHA, Lyon).

Contemporary green half sheepskin binding with corners, spine with four raised bands framed by dotted rolls, gilt double fillets and floral tools, triple gilt fillet border on green paper-covered boards, gilt title to upper board, marbled endpapers, contemporary binding.

Some rubbing to spine, corners restored.

A handsome copy.

Author's copy with inkstamp to the title-page.