1776, ISBN: 24d20834a08991d1e16d7f2206d819f5

London & Oxford, Dodsley & Clarendon Press, 1776. . Second edition of first work, first edition of second, 2 volumes, 4to, xiv, xiii, [iii], 283, [i] (ads); [iv], xiv, [2], 304 pp., 4 f… Plus…

London & Oxford, Dodsley & Clarendon Press, 1776. . Second edition of first work, first edition of second, 2 volumes, 4to, xiv, xiii, [iii], 283, [i] (ads); [iv], xiv, [2], 304 pp., 4 folding engraved maps by Kitchin (1 + 3), uniform contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels, bindings slightly rubbed, upper joints cracked but firm, a very good set. Richard Chandler, classical scholar and traveller, was introduced to the Society of Dilettanti by Robert Wood, editor of The Ruins of Palmyra, and was commissioned by the Society to undertake a tour of exploration in Asia Minor and Greece in the first independent mission funded by the society. He was given command of the expedition and was accompanied by Nicholas Revett and the watercolour painter William Edmund Pars. They were instructed to make Smyrna their headquarters.The party spent about a year in Asia Minor; among the places visited were Tenedos, Troas, Chios, Smyrna, Erythrae, Teos, Priene, Iasus (in Caria), Mylassa (Caria), Stratonicea, Laodiceia (ad Lyceum), Hierapolis, Sardes, and Ephesus. The valuable materials collected by Chandler and his companions were published in three works. The first to be published, at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti, was the first part of Ionian Antiquities, or, Ruins of Magnificent and Famous Buildings in Ionia (1769). Chandler wrote the text, while Revett provided the architectural drawings and Pars the topographical views. Chandler then produced an account of the inscriptions, together with a translation into Latin that was published at the Clarendon Press in Oxford as Inscriptiones antiquae, pleraeque nondum editae, in Asia Minore et Graecia (1774). His journals from the expedition appeared in two parts: Travels in Asia Minor (1775) and Travels in Greece (1776) (ODNB). Blackmer 319 (Travels in Greece); cf. Blackmer 318 & Atabey 215 (first edition ...Asia Minor), 0<

1776, ISBN: 24d20834a08991d1e16d7f2206d819f5

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[SC: 51.2], [PU: Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford], RICHARD CHANDLER FIRST EDITION,TRAVELS IN GREECE EDITION, First edition of Chandler's personal account of the first Ionian expedition of the Society of Dilettani which Chandler led between 1764 and 1766. Quarto, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, illustrated with two folding and five full-page maps. In near fine condition. In 1764, English antiquary Richard Chandler was was introduced by Robert Wood, who had produced the Ruins of Palmyra to the Society of Dilettanti and sent by them, accompanied by Nicholas Revett, an architect, and William Pars, a painter, to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece (1764-1766). The Society's brief, drawn up in May 1764, was that the travelers make Smyrna their headquarters, and from there ".make excursions to the several remains of antiquity in that neighborhood; to make exact plans and measurements, to make accurate drawings of the bas-reliefs and ornaments, copying all the inscriptions you shall meet with, and keeping minute diaries." Having explored numerous sites in Anatolia and Ionian Islands, they continued to Athens, where they purchased fragments of sculpture from the Parthenon: "We purchased two fine fragments of the frieze which we found inserted over the doorways in the town, and were presented with a beautiful trunk which had fallen from the metopes, and lay neglected in the garden of a Turk". The result of their labors were the Ionian Antiquities in two magnificent folios published by the Dilettanti in 1769, and, later, Chandler's record of the tour, Travels in Greece, or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society Of Dillettanti (1776).<

1776, ISBN: 24d20834a08991d1e16d7f2206d819f5

Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1776. First edition of Chandler's personal account of the first Ionian expedition of the Society of Dilettani which Chandler led between 1764 and … Plus…

Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1776. First edition of Chandler's personal account of the first Ionian expedition of the Society of Dilettani which Chandler led between 1764 and 1766. Quarto, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, illustrated with two folding and five full-page maps. In near fine condition. In 1764, English antiquary Richard Chandler was was introduced by Robert Wood, who had produced the Ruins of Palmyra to the Society of Dilettanti and sent by them, accompanied by Nicholas Revett, an architect, and William Pars, a painter, to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece (1764-1766). The Society's brief, drawn up in May 1764, was that the travelers make Smyrna their headquarters, and from there "...make excursions to the several remains of antiquity in that neighborhood; to make exact plans and measurements, to make accurate drawings of the bas-reliefs and ornaments, copying all the inscriptions you shall meet with, and keeping minute diaries." Having explored numerous sites in Anatolia and Ionian Islands, they continued to Athens, where they purchased fragments of sculpture from the Parthenon: "We purchased two fine fragments of the frieze which we found inserted over the doorways in the town, and were presented with a beautiful trunk which had fallen from the metopes, and lay neglected in the garden of a Turk". The result of their labors were the Ionian Antiquities in two magnificent folios published by the Dilettanti in 1769, and, later, Chandler's record of the tour, Travels in Greece, or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society Of Dillettanti (1776)., Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1776, 0<