Modern Athens! Displayed in a series of views: or Edinburgh in the nineteenth century: Exhibiting the whole of the buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, and picturesque scenery, of the Scottish metropolis and its environs.

  • Shepherd, Thomas
  • London: Published by Jones & Co. 1829

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Description

4to, pp. [iii]-vi, 88, [2] + engraved title-page and 48 further plates containing 101 images; pp. [82] + 40 plates containing 80 images. Bound without the letterpress title-page. Contemporary half green calf, spine gilt, marbled boards, edges marbled. Some light spotting and toning. Extremities and front board rubbed. Booklabel of Du Buisson to pastedown.

Notes

The plates have dates varying between January 1829 and 1831. Copies are often bound with a portion of the Scottish section of John Preston Neale's 'Views of the Seats [etc] of Noblemen and Gentlemen', and in this case it is a large portion, doubling the size of the overall volume.

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