Leicester Stanhope: Greece in 1823 and 1824 being a series of letters on the Greek Revolution written during a visit to that country. London 1824 First edition, in 8vo, contemporary full leather rubbed upper cover almost detached,complete,368p.,colored frontis, five facsimiles letters, text clean and bright,overall in almost very good condition Stanhope was a Philhellene officer who fought in Greece.Unlike many soldiers who focused solely on muskets and tactics, Stanhope believed that the best way to liberate Greece was not just through war, but through the press,he famously help to established the first newspapers in revolutionary Greece,like the Hellenic Chronicles and published his memoirs.He tried also to set up a regular mail service to modernize the state.Because of his obsession with printing presses, Lord Byron, who was in Greece at the same time,famously nicknamed him the typographical Colonel. The book is essentially a primary source archive. It includes Stanhope’s letters to the London Greek Committee, detailing his efforts to organize the Greek government. It documents the friction between Stanhope and Lord Byron. Stanhope wanted a democratic republic; Byron was more pragmatic and worried Stanhope's radical liberalism would alienate European monarchs. It provides a raw, often critical look at the warlords of Greece, their internal squabbles, and the desperate need for a Greek Loan from London.Stanhope actually returned to England on the same ship,The Florida, that carried Lord Byron’s body. The book provided the British public with one of the first detailed accounts of Byron's final days.He published these letters partly to defend his reputation, as he had been accused of being too radical and interfering in Greek internal politics. A pivotal Philhellenic book published during the Revolution