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STUART, James and Nicholas REVETT The Antiquities of Athens. London, 1762-1816. 4 vols. (only, without the 1830 supplement). Large 2 o. Engraved title vignettes, 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, 318 engraved plates, plans and maps (one colored in outline, some double-page or folding) after Stuart and Revett by W. Blake, J. Basire, P. Fourdrinier and others, (titles and 4 plates with perforated stamp, 3 plates torn and with old repairs, 3 tiny marginal ink stamps to text pages, some old pencil notations to first vol., some browning and wear to beginning of vol. III). Contemporary calf, spines gilt-lettered (lower cover of vol. I detached, some wear to a few spine ends, light wear or rubbing to covers). FIRST EDITION. Revett's measured drawings make this work the first accurate survey of Athenian buildings and is "the source book for the later Greek revival in England" (Flower). This set has plate XXIX, chapter I, vol. II omitted as usual. Brunet V:570; Cicognara 2713; see Flower 340. (4)