Lot No. 70: HANSON, CHARLES HENRY

HANSON, CHARLES HENRY

THE LAND OF GREECE

DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED

First Edition

Year: 1886

Size: 25 x 16.5 cm (9.3 x 6.5 Inches)

Published by: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 4to., PP 400.

No. of Illustrations: 47 (44 full page Illustrations & 3 double page colour maps.)

It has a label of Prize certificate from Jones's West Monmouthshrine School in Pontypool, dated 1903. The recipient of the prize is B.W. Croot — this serves as supporting evidence for the authenticity of his provenance.

One of Greece in the late nineteenth century, two of Ancient Greece. The illustrations (almost certainly engravings from photographs) include the Lion Gate at Mycenae, the Vale of Temple, the Athenian Acropolis, Sicyon and many more. Manage to give a real feel for what the landscape was like in the nineteenth century.
In this richly illustrated account, Charles Henry Hanson covers the history of Greece and its antiquities. As noted in the preface this book “is an endeavour to combine with a description of the country and of its principal sites and ancient remains a sketch of the events which made those places memorable – to localize, as it were, something of the vast mass of traditions and historic records associated with Hellas from a period long anterior to the birth of Christ down to the present day. ”The author also describes the reason for writing the book; “of the books about Greece, its history and its antiquities, there are enough and spare in our literature. Most of them, however, are too formidable in their dimensions for general circulation.”

BINDING: Full tree calf leather binding, title in gilt on spine monogram of the school library in gilt on front cover.

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Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman

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