4to. Volume I: Travels in Asia Minor, xxiv, 328 pp., / Volume II: Travels in Greece, xv, [2], 343 pp., 8 maps of which 4 are folding by Thomas Kitchin (first map repeated), modern half calf with marbled boards, lightly faded, title gilt on raised spine, marbled edges, library stamp on fly leaf and title page, occasional foxing, previous owner’s inscription on title page, otherwise copy in very good condition, From the Library of Papadopoulos, third edition, Joseph Booker and R. Priestley, London, 1817.

Synopsis

The first collected edition in English. The first French collected edition, edited by Barbie du Bocage, was published in Riom in 1806; the work is important because of the notes and observations made by Fauvel, Choiseul-Goffier and others. Chandler’s “Travels in Asia Minor” first appeared in
1775, his “Greek travels” in 1776. Nicholas Revett, an amateur architect and the co-author with James Stuart of “Antiquities of Athens” (1762), joined the Ionian Mission, having been retained as an architect, with Pars as draughtsman and Chandler as historian-journalist. Revett’s notes and remarks were not included in Chandler’s original publication and have been added here by the editor, as Revett himself died in 1804.
Bibliographic references: Atabey, 216; Blackmer 321 for 1825 edition; Chatzipanagioti Sangmeister, 187.