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Museum Worsleyanum or a Collection of Antique Basso Relievos. L, 1794-[1803]. Sir Richard Worsley is said to have expended upwards of 30.000 GBP in collecting the materials for this work, of which two hundred and fifty copies were envisioned. In the year 1823 a new edition was announced by Mr. Prowett. In this edition the plates where reduced in size ( 36 x 25 cm as opposed to 54 cm x 37 cm ). THE BOOK ON OFFER HERE IS THE ORIGINAL EDITION February 1785 Worsley left Rome for an extensive journey in the Levant , accompanied by Willey Reveley [q. v.] as his draughtsman. He reached Athens on 9 May 1785, and stayed there with Gaspari, the French consul. From Athens he proceeded on a tour in Greece, visiting Eleusis, Megara (where he obtained for a small sum the statue of Asclepias, priestess of Artemis Orthosia), Epidaurus, Ægina, Delos, Myconos, Rhodes, Cairo, and Constantinople. In the spring of 1786 he made an excursion to Sigeum and Troy, and visited the Crimea. He returned to Rome on 4 April 1787. In his travels Worsley had brought together a remarkable collection of statues, reliefs, and gems, which he arranged at his house at Appuldurcomb. In 1798 he issued the first part (dated ‘1794’) of the ‘Museum Worsleyanum,’ a sumptuous illustrated description of his collection. E. Q. Visconti seems to have supplied a great deal of material for the text. The cost of part i., exclusive of binding, was 2,887l. 4s. Worsley died at Appuldurcomb on 8 Aug. 1805 Sir Richard Worsley is said to have distributed no more than twenty-seven copies of the original edition. It is scarcely possible, although the text for two hundred and fifty copies was printed, that that number of the original edition was ever completed. Thus this lavishly printed original edition is rare. No better person himself to introduce the book to you then the author himself: Impelled by a love of the Fine Arts, and anxious to view the celebrated remains of Sculpture when it was carried to the highest perfection by the most elegant nation in the universe, the Greeks, I determined to visit Athens, where I arrived early in the spring of the year 1785. The view of the superb Temple of Minerva in the Metropolis was alone sufficient to obliterate the difficulties of the journey ; the beauty and magnificence of that edifice, on the closest examination, surpassed even my most sanguine expectations. After having employed two years in visiting the antiquities of Greece, her Islands Colonies in Asia Minor, Egypt, Constantinople, I returned to Rome, where listening to the earnest solicitations of some literary friends, engravings were made by the best artists of a considerable number of antique monuments, collected in the course of my extensive Tour. I offer the first part of this work, with 99 plates of marbles, p 1-103 . Issued 1794 Bound with this work is VOL IV of the Society of Antiquaries_London Vetusta monumenta. Large Folio, again not be confused with later, less sumptuous runs of his journal. Contents: 1. Account of Antiquities, discovered at Ribchester, in a Letter from Charles Townley, with four plates, 2. The Rosetta Stone, 3 plates, 3. Metal dishes in the possession of Francis Douce. Another five plates and map of the city of Hollywood , Paypal possible, but please in Euro. EU customers + 6% VAT. Please note free shipping means surface shipping (two months) AIR 55$ Worldwide , 55$ in Europe. Look at my other book on Pompeij
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