First ed., with errata uncorrected. Two issues are known, in 1 vol. and in 2; see Blackmer

Sloan candidate

Getty copy bound in 2 v., but as paging and signing are continuous, it is not clear to which issue it belongs

Appendix includes inscriptions, poems and prose in Greek and English (including "a translation of a Romaïc love-song ... transmitted to me by my friend Lord Byron"), notes on the pronunciation of Greek, a section on the Albanian language, and a two-page specimen of Greek music

Maps engraved, frontispiece stipple engraved. Eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates, some of them double-page

Greece and the Levant, Blackmer collection

Binding: marbled paper, perhaps contemporary. Calfskin spines, tooled in gilt, with "Hobhouse's Albania" and vol. nos. on black spine labels. Vellum corners

On front pastedowns of both vols. are bookplates of N.A.C. Embiricos. On front pastedown of v. 1 is stamp in black ink of an armorial crest above the name Kirkleatham; the crest is repeated without the name on t.p. of v. 1 and 1st p. of v. 2

xix, 1152, [8] p. : 28 cm

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