Athens | Marion & Co. | album of 30 photographs, [c.1870s-1880s]

BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF HADDINGTON, LOTS 54-108

ATHENS--MARION & CO.
Album of 30 photographs. [c.1870s-1880s]

Oblong folio (335 x 463mm.), 30 albumen prints (average 215 x 260mm., or the reverse), mounted recto only, most with manuscript titles to mounts, "Marion & Co., 22 Soho Square, London", blindstamp to front free endpaper, contemporary dark green half morocco, pebbled cloth boards, title label in morocco to upper cover, red edges, metal clasp, some fading, spotting (mostly to mounts), rubbed and slightly bowed

The photographs include: the Acropolis, Temple of Jupiter, Gate of Adrian, Theatre of Herodes Atticus, Propylea, Temple of Nike Apteros, Parthenon, Erechteum, Hall of Caryatides, Theatre of Dionysus, Areopagus, Pnyx, Philopappos, Temple of Theseus, Temple of the Winds, Diogenes Lantern, a Byzantine Church, Mount Pentilians, Pass of Daphne, and Salamis.

Condition Report:
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