Wordsworth C.: “Athens and Attica journal of a residence there.”London 1836 First edition, tall 8vo 23x14cm, contemporary full leather, spine gilded, some light browning , text clean, complete 285p., with 3 lithographed plates and two folding maps; overall very good Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) toured in Greece in 1832-33, he was the first Englishman presented to King Otto. The fine plates are drawings of Robert Cockerell, a prominent English architect who was with Wordsworth in Athens. The interesting and detailed description of Attica just after the independence was the first published work of the author and the rarest. Scarce. Not in Atabey, Blackmer 1839