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Lawrence (Richard). Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon at Athens, 1st edition, 1818 Lawrence (Richard). Elgin Marbles, from the Parthenon at Athens: exemplified by fifty etchings, selected from the most beautiful and least mutilated specimens in that collection, and accompanied with explanatory and critical remarks on the style, composition, and peculiar experience of those transcendent relics of Grecian sculpture, 1st edition, London: printed by Thomas Davison, 1818, list of subscribers, 50 etched plates, a little light spotting, mainly to text, small ownership ink stamp, contemporary half calf, joints cracking, a little rubbed and scuffed, oblong folio, 30 x 38 cm QTY: (1) NOTE: Blackmer 967: 'First and apparently only edition. This is one of the earliest detailed illustrations of the Elgin Marbles. In 1816 appeared selections from Stuart and Revett's plates; in 1817 works by Burrow and Sharp were produced providing illustrations of the marbles as well.' The marbles were removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in 1801, and sold to the British Government in 1816.