GIOVANNI BAPTISTA CIPRIANI: Monumenti della Grecia. Roma 1798 First and only edition of a fine collection of 25 engraved views of Greece. Small folio 29 x 21 cm, contemporary marbled boards. Complete: engraved title, engraved contents leaf, and twenty-five (25) engraved plates, as called for. Very minor wear, with some very light scattered marginal spots, almost unremarkable. Overall a lovely fine copy. Cipriani (1727–1785) was an important Italian painter and engraver, the first exponent of Neoclassicism in England, and played a major role in shaping 18th-century English artistic taste. He engraved 25 fine views of Greece from various sources, presented in a distinctive oval format, as though seen through a mirror. The publication was completed after his death and was rare even in its own time. References: Blackmer 390, not in Atabey