Voyage littéraire de la Grèce, ou lettres sur les Grecs, anciens et modernes, avec un parallèle de leurs moeurs (…) Nouvelle Édition revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée. On y a joint un Voyage de Sophie à Constantinople, un Voyage d'Italie, & quelques Opuscules du même

Second edition, revised and enlarged, illustrated with 7 superb copper-engraved plates by Laurent after drawings by David Massil and Antoine Favray, including 4 folding plates (6 plates in the first volume, 1 in the second).

See Contominas 315. Blackmer 655 (the 1783 edition erroneously records 9 plates). Absent from Atabey.

Contemporary full mottled calf, smooth spines richly gilt with floral and typographic ornaments, red morocco lettering-pieces, green morocco volume labels, the latter partially rubbed, gilt rolls to the spine ends partly worn, blue endpapers and pastedowns, red edges.

Some restorations to the spines and joints, occasional foxing.

This second edition includes additional letters together with a contribution by Madame Chénier on Greek dances (with notated music).

A third edition, with additional plates, was published in 1781 (the only edition cited by Cohen).

The plates comprise: 1: En macrama et en ferrege. Dame allant dans la rue avec ses suivantes. – 2: Dame grecque habillée à la Turque dans l'intérieur de son Jardin… – 3: Fontaine de Saint Elie, près de Constantinople. – 4: Noce champêtre. – 5: Pleurs sur les Tombeaux. – 6: La Madrague ou Pêche du Thon. – 7: Plan, Elévation et Profils d'un ancien Acqueduc situé près du Village de Bourgas à 3 petites lieues de Constantinople.

"The plates are mostly after designs by Antoine Favray, long established at Malta. He was a friend of Guys and travelled to Constantinople in 1762 where he remained for about eight years. His oriental works are known at large only through the engravings by Laurent in Guys's work. Guys had spent more than 30 years in the Levant engaged in commercial pursuits, having been sent in 1739 to the business house of his uncles in Constantinople. His literary and antiquarian studies led him to the conclusion that the modern Greeks were directs descendants of the ancients, and his book is full of comparisons between the ancient and the modern Greeks on every conceivable subject. It is in the form of letters. This successful and popular book played an important part in developing philhellenic sentiments in France" [Leonora Navari].