Books and Manuscripts

Chandler, Richard
Ionian Antiquities, Published with the Permission of the Society of Dilettanti
London: Printed by T. Spilsbury and W. Haskell, 1769. Volume I only (of an eventual five). First edition. Illustrated with 33 full-page plates and multiple vignettes. Publisher's three-quarter diced russia over tan cloth-covered boards, slightly dried, rebacked; marbled edges; marbled endpapers; scattered foxing, especially to the last six pages of text and five plates. Blackmer 1556

"The materials for the first two volumes were the result of the first Ionian mission of Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett, and William Pars in 1764-66." (Blackmer). Over the next 36 years, Chandler's Ionian Antiquities would eventually stretch to five volumes, and had a profound influence on the neoclassicism movement of 19th-century England.