[FRIEDEL, Adam de (1780-c. 1868)

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Los 246 | [FRIEDEL, Adam de (1780-c. 1868)
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[FRIEDEL, Adam de (1780-c. 1868)

[Les Grecs]. London and Paris: 1827.

A beautifully coloured complete set of 24 engraved portraits of the principal leaders of the Greek Independence movement. Friedel was a Danish soldier and artist, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars who later travelled in the Ottoman Empire, and who was in Greece with Lord Byron at the time of the Greek struggle for independence. He met Byron, whose portrait appears in this publication, at Missolonghi. He took the title of Baron Friedel von Friedelsburg, but his false claims of aristocratic lineage led him to be expelled from the Greek Army. He was eventually forced to leave Greece for London where he set up a lithography shop where he published this set of lithographs from his own drawings, prepared and coloured by Jules Bouvier (1800-1867). The plates were first issued between 1824-1826 and then again in this second edition. Blackmer 633; Bobins II, 142; Droulia 752-3, 1125-6.



Folio (475 x 330mm). 24 lithographic plates, coloured by a contemporary hand (light scattered spotting in places). Contemporary russia, gilt and blind ruled to a panel design with large gilt scrolled border, 'Les Grecs' gilt stamped to upper cover (binding a little bowed, upper joint restored with small crack along half the joint, lower cover water-stained). Provenance: Sir Charles Throckmorton, (1757–1840; engraved armorial bookplate).





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