SAYER, Robert (1725-1794) [Julien David LE ROY (1724?-1803)]. Ruins of Athens, with Remains and the Valuable Antiquities in Greece. London: Robert Sayer, 1759. 2° (537 x 349mm). Etched frontispiece and 26 etched and engraved plates after Le Roy. (Frontispiece offset onto title-page, some mainly marginal dust-soiling, one plate with light damp-stain.) 20th-century olive buckram, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt (lightly rubbed).

SAYER, Robert (1725-1794) [Julien David LE ROY (1724?-1803)]. Ruins of Athens, with Remains and the Valuable Antiquities in Greece. London: Robert Sayer, 1759. 2° (537 x 349mm). Etched frontispiece and 26 etched and engraved plates after Le Roy. (Frontispiece offset onto title-page, some mainly marginal dust-soiling, one plate with light damp-stain.) 20th-century olive buckram, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt (lightly rubbed).

First edition thus; the first English version of Le Roy's treatise, originally published in Paris in 1758. In his Preface Sayer freely acknowledges his debt to Le Roy as well as to Sir George Wheler, whose Journey into Greece (1682) provides the material for the 'Historical Account of Athens' found here. RIBA 1876; Harris 493.