Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce

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Voyage Littéraire De La Grèce: Ou, Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes, Avec un Parallèle de Leurs Moeurs

by M. Guys

Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce
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Title page from Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce, volume one, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Pierre-Augustin Guys
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Published Paris: Veuve Duchesne
Date 1783
Edition Third edition, revised, corrected
Language French
Volumes 4 volume set
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Desc. 8vo (21 cm.)
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Frontispiece, volume one.
Voyage Littéraire De La Grèce: Ou, Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes, Avec un Parallèle de Leurs Moeurs 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 so often only because people were not taking the time to study them sufficiently.[1] As a humanist, Guys focused almost entirely on the human activities of the Greek people instead of the antiquity of the landscape around them.[2] He believed that the best way to understand Ancient Greece was to study the Modern Greeks.[3]

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 George Wythe's Library[4] on LibraryThing and the Brown Bibliography[5] identify this entry as the 1783 (3rd) edition. Jefferson sold the same edition to the Library of Congress[6] and this was the edition purchased by the Wolf Law Library.

"La Madrague ou Peche du Thon" from volume one.

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.

View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. ↑ Olga Augustinos, French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 156.
  2. ↑ Olga Augustinos, French Odysseys, 171.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe", accessed on November 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433
  6. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, ""Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:134-135, [no. 3914].

External Links

Read volume one of this book in Google Books.

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