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ADVERTISEMENT.
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In the present era, the age of George the Fourth, an era more redundant in glory, pros-
perity and happiness, than any preceding epoch of the British empire ; when the arts, their hand-
maids are fostered by an enlightened Sovereign, an accomplished Nobility, and a liberal Parliament;
when'new streets, worthy of Rome, traverse the capital; and when bridges, churches, and palaces2
rise up around us'; and when even the private dwelling and the cottage partake of the refinements of
taste —at a period too when the principles of our benign Government facilitate and encourage the
mental cultivation of every class of subjects :—we have thought it precisely the time when a new edi-
tion of the Antiquities of Athens, offered at a cost that must double the scale of its circulation, would
be peculiarly and generally acceptable.
In the satisfactory performance of our engagements as stated above, we have no distrust. We
place the work with confidence before a discriminating and candid Public.
March, 1825.
We allude to that zone of architectural display in the Regent's Park.
TO Tl
-: humbly to lay at.
. Architecture by de
:cityof Greece, am
]#nttd for those Arts, which
'fen deigns to patronize.
'^ Athens, and of those n
golden us, thus to i
*S affords, the Arts of
-^iGN in whose mine
^ may long enj
st a free, an aff
V0^ MAJESTY'S
MOST DVTI
6
In the present era, the age of George the Fourth, an era more redundant in glory, pros-
perity and happiness, than any preceding epoch of the British empire ; when the arts, their hand-
maids are fostered by an enlightened Sovereign, an accomplished Nobility, and a liberal Parliament;
when'new streets, worthy of Rome, traverse the capital; and when bridges, churches, and palaces2
rise up around us'; and when even the private dwelling and the cottage partake of the refinements of
taste —at a period too when the principles of our benign Government facilitate and encourage the
mental cultivation of every class of subjects :—we have thought it precisely the time when a new edi-
tion of the Antiquities of Athens, offered at a cost that must double the scale of its circulation, would
be peculiarly and generally acceptable.
In the satisfactory performance of our engagements as stated above, we have no distrust. We
place the work with confidence before a discriminating and candid Public.
March, 1825.
We allude to that zone of architectural display in the Regent's Park.
TO Tl
-: humbly to lay at.
. Architecture by de
:cityof Greece, am
]#nttd for those Arts, which
'fen deigns to patronize.
'^ Athens, and of those n
golden us, thus to i
*S affords, the Arts of
-^iGN in whose mine
^ may long enj
st a free, an aff
V0^ MAJESTY'S
MOST DVTI