HENRY INWOOD:THE ERECHTHEION AT ATHENS, FRAGMENTS OF ATHENIAN ARCHITECTURE AND FEW REMAINS IN ATTICA, MEGARA AND EPIRUS. LONDON 1831 Second edition, IMPERIAL FOLIO, an impressive publication, contemporary leather over boards, complete 49p. of text and 39 huge folio lithographed plates, some folding, some scattered spotting in few places, light wear, armorial ex libris of David Talbot Rice (1903-1972), leading historian of the 20th century) in front past down, overall in very good condition, a fine provenance. A landmark publication in the history of architecture and Philhellenism. It represents the moment when the details of the Greek architecture were finally captured with precision for the rest of the world to copy. Inwood travelled to Greece and spent time during 1819 in Athens to study the temple before the destructions of the war of Independence. He was so obsessed with this building that he even brought in England one of the original Caryatids (now in the British Museum) and several other fragments. St Pancras New Church in London looks exactly as the Erectheion as has been designed, as duplicate, by Inwood using the details from his measurements and studies analyzed in this book. It contain the first accurate reconstruction of the temple. The book was a catalyst for a global architectural revolution, as he provided the first mathematically precise measurements for the Erechtheion unique details.Several of the details he was able to capture were lost in the following decade. The removal of the Caryatid, although very controversial today, Boosted Philhellenism as it personified Greece itself: A noble beautiful woman standing firm despite being under barbarian occupation for so long, this had huge effect for the development of Philhellenism in England at his time.