WILLIAMS Hugh William, “Select Views in Greece with classical Illustrations”, Vols I-II, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green / Edinburgh, Adam Black, MDCCC.XXIX [1829]. Large 4to. Two (2) volumes, including 63 of the 64 steel engravings on India paper.

Hugh William Williams (1773-1829) was a Scots landscape painter that visited Greece and Italy in 1818, in a travel that marked his whole life. In 1820 he published a 2-vol account of his travels and in 1822 he exhibited his paintings of Grecian landscapes in Edinburgh. The Select Views appeared in parts from 1827 to 1829 with the plates engraved by famous and skillful British engravers.  Contemporary half green morocco with gilt-tooled spine and all-edges in gilt. Rubbing along joints, boards, edges and corners, occasional spotting inside. Ex-libris armorial label on paste down endpapers.

Blackmer 1811, Brunet V 1455.