WORDSWORTH Christopher, “GREECE Pictorial, Descriptive, & Historical / With numerous engravings illustrative of the scenery, architecture, costume, and fine arts of that country And a history of the characteristics of Greek Art by George Scharf / A NEW EDITION revised, with notices of recent discoveries by H. F. Tozer”, London : Murray, 1882. In 4°, p. xxvviii,460. With frontispiece, title vignette (steel engravings), 20 full page steel engravings (including 5 maps) by R.Brandard, E.Radclyffe, E.G.Scharf, Meissonier, Sargent, Daubigny & others, 15 wood engraving plates and numerous wood engraving plates and text woodcuts. Wordsworth (1807-1885), bishop of Lincoln, scholar, Biblical commentator and prolific author, travelled in Greece in 1832-33 and he was the first Englishman presented to King Otto. He was a keen observer and his conjecture of the site of Dodona was confirmed by Carapanos. His works on Greece and Athens & Attica "are still books of authority." Full leather binding (brown spine - dark green boards), embossed in gilt coat of arms on front cover and lined pattern along both boards, gilt meander on edges; spine with five ornate nerves, gilt title and decoration. Visible rubbing along hinges. Colour marbled end papers, gilt fleuron over inner edges; clean and tight inside, scattered spotting and foxing. Pages with gilt edges. Fresh illustrations, with some guards to full page illustrations. Good copy and Scarce.