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Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA

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Xxiii, 356 Pp. First Printing, 1839. Full Morocco, Gilt, And Stamped In Blind, Yellow Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. Plates, Tissue Guards With Subject Titles. Slight Usage, Tiny Repairs To Corners, Furbished. Captions Printed On The Tissue Guards. Binding Is Early Or Original, Wear But Nicely Refurbished, New Morocco Spine Label, Hinges Intact And Solid. Contents Very Clean, Light Foxing To A Few Plates But Almost All Are Entirely Clean And With Clean, Intact Tissue Guards. Wordsworth Was The Youngest Son Of The Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Master Of Trinity And A Nephew Of The Poet William Wordsworth. He Was The Younger Brother Of The Classical Scholar John Wordsworth And Charles Wordsworth, Bishop Of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld And Dunblane. He Was Educated At Winchester And Trinity, Cambridge. Like His Brother Charles, He Was Distinguished As An Athlete As Well As For Scholarship. He Won The Chancellor's Gold Medal For Poetry In 1827 And 1828. He Became Senior Classic, And Was Elected A Fellow And Tutor Of Trinity In 1830; Shortly Afterwards He Took Holy Orders. He Went For A Tour In Greece In 1832-1833, And Published Various Works On Its Topography And Archaeology, The Most Famous Of Which Is "Wordsworth's" Greece (1839). In 1836 He Became Public Orator At Cambridge, And In The Same Year Was Appointed Headmaster Of Harrow, A Post He Resigned In 1844. In 1844 Sir Robert Peel Appointed Him As A Canon Of Westminster (1844–1869). He Was Vicar Of Stanford In The Vale, Berkshire (1850–1869) And Archdeacon Of Westminster (1864–1869). In 1869 Benjamin Disraeli Appointed Him Bishop Of Lincoln Which He Retained Until His Death In 1885.

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Bibliographic details

Title
Greece. Pictorial, Descriptive And Historical
Author
Wordsworth, Christopher; Over 350 Wood Engravings, 28 Steel Engravings, By Copley Fielding, F. Creswick, D. Cox, Paul Huet, Meissonier, Sargent, Daubigny, Jaques And Other Artists
Publisher
William S. Orr & Co., London
Publication year
1839
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
Printing
1st Printing
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Antiquarian Books and Leather-Bound Books, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean: History, Art, Culture and Travel

Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA

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