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<dl><dd>[43] prints (6 double page, folded) : 52 cm</dd>
<dd>The present copy comprises 2 of 3 sets of plates published by Richard Dalton, each without text or t.p. "Twenty-one prints of the antiquities of Athens" appeared in 1751 and had 23 plates. "Musaeum Graecum et Aegyptiacum" appeared in 1752 and had 20 plates. "A series of prints relating to the manners, customs &amp;c. of the present inhabitants of Egypt" did not appear until 1781, and all three series were issued together in 1791 as "Antiquities and views in Greece and Egypt; with the manners and customs of the inhabitants." See BAL</dd>
<dd>Some plates etched by Dalton, others by: James Basire Jr., Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, James Mason, Antoine Radigues, John Miller (J.S. Müller), Tobias Müller, Edward Rooker, François Vivarès</dd>
<dd>Sloan candidate</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Etna, Mount (Italy) -- Pictorial works; Greece -- Antiquities -- Pictorial works; Greece -- Description and travel -- Pictorial works; Turkey -- Antiquities -- Pictorial works; Turkey -- Description and travel -- Pictorial works; Egypt -- Antiquities -- Pictorial works</div>
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Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791</div>
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