FIRST EDITION. 4to. Complete with two folding maps, two facsimiles, two leaves of engraved music, 17 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates, and one uncoloured plate, spotting to maps, facsimiles, and music as is usual also some offsetting from these leaves. Colour plates are generally in excellent condition with good margins, the nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, black title label, lettered in gilt to spine. The binding is a little rubbed but overall a very good copy. Bookplate of "Alexander A. Berens" to front pastedown. Hobhouse was a friend of Lord Byron, and he accompanied him on his first journey to Greece. Hobhouse provided plenty of good information concerning the Court and character of Ali Pashaat Joannina. Coloured plates in order: 1. A Dancing Girl. 2. An Albanian. 3. Remains of the Stadium at Delphi, the village of Castri, & the Castalian summits of Parnassus. 4. View of the Valley of Plistus, with part of the Gulph of Salama. 5. Athens, from the foot of Mt. Anchesmus. (double) 6. Ruins of Hadrian's Temple, with a View of the South-East Angle of the Acropolis and Parthenon. (double) 7. The West Front of the Acropolis from the Summits of the Propylaea. (double) 8. South East Angle of the Parthenon. (double) 9. The village of Marathon with a distant view of the plain. 10. A Greek Lady in her walking dress. 11. A Turkish Female Lave, playing on the Dulcimer. 12. View of Tophana of the Artillery Arsenal at Constantinople. (double) 13. A Turkish Woman. 14. A Sultana. 15. A Colonel of the Janissaries. 16. First Gate of the Seraglio. (double) 17. The New Barracks of the Bombardiers & Miners. (double)