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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Voyage Littéraire De La Grèce: Ou, Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes, Avec un Parallèle de Leurs Moeurs''}}
===by M. Guys===
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|imagename=GuysVoyageLitteraireGrece1783TitlePageV1.jpg
|link=https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3679304
|shorttitle=Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce
|vol=volume one
|author=Pierre-Augustin Guys
|edition=Third edition, revised, corrected
|lang=French
|publoc=Paris
|publisher=Veuve Duchesne 
|year=1783
|set=4
|desc=8vo (21 cm.)
|shelf=B-3
}}[[File:GuysVoyageLitteraireGrece1783FrontispieceV1.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]]This is a compilation of letters penned by Pierre-Augustin Guys (1721-1799). Although originally written in French, the book has also been translated to English. It was one of the first writings to show a favorable image of the Greeks; Guys believed they had been scorned only because people were not taking the time to study them sufficiently.<ref>Olga Augustinos, ''French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era'' (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 156.</ref> Guys believed that the best way to understand Ancient Greece was to study the Modern Greeks.<ref>Konstantinos Andriotis, “Early Travellers to Greece and their Modern Counterparts” (paper presented at the Tourist Experiences: Meanings, Motivations, Behaviours, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, April 1-4, 2009).</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Voyages de la Grece 4.v. 8vo. de Guys'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to his son-in-law, [[Thomas Mann Randolph]]. Later appears on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Guy's Letters on Greece' (4 vols., $2.50 value)." Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 13, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. May, 2014.) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> identify this entry as the 1783 (third) edition. Barbara Dean listed this edition in her [[Dean Bibliography|bibliography]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 4 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> and Jefferson sold the same edition to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:134-135, [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648125;view=1up;seq=151 [no.3914]].</ref> Based on the evidence of these sources, the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the third edition.
[[File:GuysVoyageLitteraireGrece1783IllustrationV1.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>"La Madrague ou Peche du Thon" from volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in full calf marble with richly adorned spine. Title page and volume number in red and green morocco. Purchased from Librairie Herodote.<br />
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Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637876811066/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3679304 William & Mary's online catalog.]

==See also==
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*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
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==External Links==
Read volume one of this book in [http://books.google.com/books?id=YxgoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google Books.]

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