Athenian letters: . or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war. A new edition; to which is prefixed a geographical index. In two volumes. Illustrated with engravings, and a map of antient Greece. ...
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720 - 1790)
Category
Books
Date
1798
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3007190
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,(lxii,[2],436;xv,[1],466p.) [15] plates (some folded) . map,port.. . 4to.. Imperfect: wanting the half-titles. Provenance: manuscript on flyleaves to both vols. in a late eighteenth-century hand: From the Editor. Bookplate: Erthig (anonymous armorial). Binding: Tree calf, single gilt roll tools on cover edges, board edges and turn-ins, gilt tooling on spines, yellow painted edges; vol. 2 spine label missing.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1720 - 1790)