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EDWARD DODWELL (1767-1832) Views in Greece from drawings by Edward Dodwell . London: Rodwell and Martin, 1821. 2° (519 x 382mm.). Title with aquatint vignette, list of plates, introduction and 30 hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell, T. Fielding, F.C. Lewis and others after Dodwell and Pomardi, on guards, with contemporary penciled captions and accompanying text leaves in English and French. (Front free endpaper creased, torn and repaired, very short marginal worm-track at gutter affecting plates 2 and 3 and associated text-leaves, light even browning to plates.) Contemporary purple morocco, panelled in gilt and blind with floral roll-tooling, spine richly gilt in six compartments, gilt turn-ins and gilt edges. (Upper cover detached, extremities lightly rubbed, head and tail of the spine more heavily, the whole sometime refurbished.) FIRST EDITION , ordinary format on thick paper. The work was issued in six parts from 1819 to 1821; most copies were issued in this format although a few copies were mounted on card in portfolios (Abbey and Gennadius Library copies). The plates in this work had been intended to illustrate Dodwell's Tour of Greece , 1819, but the cost of production proved too much and a selection of 30 plates were separately published under this title. Dodwell travelled in Greece and the islands for four years; the drawings for the above thirty plates were chosen from over 400 made by Dodwell, and 600 by Pomardi, the artist who accompanied him. Blackmer 493; cf. Abbey Travel 130.