Book Description

8vo, first edition; xiv [ii], 344. Five illustrations, viz: 1) Peloponnesus (folding map), facing page 1; 2) Plan of the Isthmian Hierum, facing page 45; 3) Mantinea and Nestane, facing 125; 4) Ancient Sparta, facing page 160; 5) Navarino, facing page 214. Original decorated green cloth, skilfully rebacked, retaining original spine, and pale yellow endpapers, early bookplate removed from front paste-down, later book-plate to verso fly-leaf. A clean, attractive example of an interesting travel account, dedicated to Finlay, and acknowledging Leake as one of his prime sources. Clark goes from Athens to Megara, through the Isthmus to Corinth, to Nema, Mycenae and Tiryns, Argos and its neighbourhood, Karya, Nestane and Mintinea, Tripolitza to Sparta, Kalamata, Navarino, Vourkamo, Bassae, Olympia, Patras, Megaspelion, Styx to Stymphalus and finally Sicyon. William George Clark was a notable classical scholar at Cambridge, who appears to have been a most accomplished man, being a founder of the Journal of Philology, and editor of works on Shakespeare as well as travel writer.
Author George Clark, M.A.
Date 1858
Binding Hardcover
Publisher John W. Parker and Son
Condition Good

Price: £245.00

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