Davenport W.: “Historical Porttaiture of leading events of Ali Pasha vizier of Epirus surnamed the Lion in a series of Designs with a biographical sketch “.London 1823

First and only edition. In Folio 41,5x29cm,contemporary leather over boards, binding slightly worn out, complete: title, list of plates, preface, all the pages of text titled biographical sketch of Ali Pasha and the 6 beautiful contemporary hand colored aquatints plates by G.Hunt after Davenport,  one advertisement leaf at the end as called for, few water stain in two pages of text with a tiny hole, two edges of pages frayed but restored, the fine plates clean and bright, overall in very good set.

Ali Pasha of Yannina incredible story influenced a lot the contemporary Europeans. His rule over Epirus and western Greece for thirty years, his almost independence, his revolt against the Sultan which helped, indirectly, the spreading of the Greek revolution and his tragic death had not passed unnoticed in Europe. The strikingly dramatized scenes depicted were evidently chosen by Davenport to give a romantic view of Ali Pasha s life. The Impressive Folio colored aquatint views are among the best scenes of events in Greece during the early 19th century and pieces of art. The print run was very small, the publication was expensive at its time and has appeared in modern times only five times the last 35 years. Atabey 325,Blackmer 454.Splendid beautiful publication and Extremely Rare