The Plains of Troy. Drawn on the spot by Henry Acland, Esq. Engraved by F.C. Lewis, Engraver of Drawings to the Queen Victoria.

Oxford: Messrs. Wyatt & Son, 1st Octr. 1839.. First and sole edition. (31.5 x 213 cm). Folding aquatint panorama in sepia by F.C. Lewis after a drawing by Henry Acland. Backed onto linen and edged with green cloth. Some staining and spotting, some wear at folds and to edging, manuscript title on verso in a later hand. "This panorama accompanied the text of Acland's brief 48-page description of Troy: The Plains of Troy. Illustrated with a panoramic drawing taken on the spot; and a map, Oxford, W. Baker, 1839. Acland, who later became regius professor of medicine at Oxford, spent the years 1838-9 abroad for his health, most of that time as a guest on board H.M.S. Pembroke cruising the Mediterranean. It was then that he visited the Levant and the coast of Asia Minor; in fact he made three visits to the Troad in 1838. A long review of Acland's work appeared in the Quarterly Review, 1840 (vol. 66, pp. 355-74); it was highly praised by the anonymous reviewer who regrets that Acland did not publish the whole of his journal. Acland had intended to write a full-length work on Troy but he published only this panorama, with a description and a short account of the circumstances of its production; he also produced sketches of all the seven churches of Asia Minor. At the end of his text Acland acknowledges the help of Sir Francis Beaufort and mentions that the work was going to begin on a survey of the northern coast of Asia Minor, a reference to Spratt and Graves's survey of 1839. The panorama accompanied the brief pamphlet, but it was sold separately by Wyatt, publisher's of engravings and lithographs, as is clear from Wyatt's bill, which makes no mention of the text published by Baxter. The map, which is bound into the British Library copy of the text, was also printed by Wyatt. Acland's unpublished and copious journal is preserved in the Bodleian Library" (Navari). (Atabey 7; Weber I, 1127; not in Abbey or Blackmer but see 1775.)