Lot 558: ALLASON (THOMAS) Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Pola, in Istria

Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Pola, in Istria, first edition, LARGE PAPER COPY, half-title, 10 engraved plates (2 in proof state) by W.B. Cooke, George Cooke, Henry Moses and Cosmo Armstrong, 4 engraved vignettes, tissue guards, occasional light spotting, BLACKMER COPY, uncut in contemporary half morocco, rubbed at extremities [Blackmer 25], folio, John Murray, 1819

Thomas Allason (1790-1852), an architect, travelled to Greece in 1814 as draughtsman to John and Edward Spencer Stanhope. He made the drawings for this publication, dedicated to the Society of Dilettanti, with the intention of improving on the previous account on Pola's antiquities illustrated by Stuart and Revett.