Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Williams, Hugh William, 1773-1829
Title:
Select views in Greece : with classical illustrations / by H.W. Williams, Esq. F.R.S.E.
Published / Created:
London; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green : MDCCCXXIX [1829]

[Edinburgh] : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green : MDCCCXXIX [1829]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DF219 .W55 1829+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Mr Williams has likewise to acknowledge his obligations to Mr John Patterson of Edinburgh, for his judicious selection of Greek and Latin quotations, and for the elegant translations with which he has accompanied them."--P. [4]

Engravings by William Miller, James Horsburgh, James Stewart, W.H. Lizars, Frederick Rudolph Hay, and William Forrest; after Hugh William Williams and C.R. Cockerell.

Each plate accompanied by page of descriptive letterpress.

BAC: British Art Center copy is 2 v. in 1. Bound in blind- and gilt-stamped smooth dark green calf, with marbled endpapers.
Subject Terms:
Greece -- Description and travel. | Architecture -- Greece. | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green -- Publisher. | Black, Adam -- Publisher. | Edinburgh -- Imprints -- Specimens -- 1829. | Steel engraving -- Specimens -- 1829. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1829.
Contributors:
Miller, William, 1796–1882, engraver. | Horsburgh, James, engraver. | Stewart, James, 1791–1863, engraver. | Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788–1859. | Hay, Frederick Rudolph, 1784– | Forrest, William, 1805–1889, engraver. | Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788–1863, ill. | Williams, Hugh William, 1773–1829, ill. | Patterson, John Brown, 1804–1835.