REY (Étienne). Picturesque journey to Greece and the Levant made in 1843-1844. Journal de voyage. Lyon, Louis Perrin & Claude Bonnaviat, 1867. 2 volumes in one folio, brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt title on first cover, gilt head (period binding). First edition. This is the published account by the painter Étienne Rey of his artistic journey to Greece, Constantinople and Egypt, which he made in 1843-1844 in the company of the architects Antoine-Marie Chenavard and Jean-Michel Dalgabio. Chenavard had already published a report of the same trip in Lyon in 1858. The illustrations consist of 55 plates out of text - including 3 maps and plans and 52 views of Athens, Constantinople, Ephesus, Smyrna, Cairo, Corfu, etc., printed on mounted chine paper - and 42 figures in the text, all drawn and lithographed by Étienne Rey. Leonora Navari observes, in the Blackmer catalogue, that Rey's lithographs are more interesting than the engravings in Chenavard's relation, since his eye as a painter led him to produce lively and picturesque views of modern life in Greece and Athens, whereas Chenavard, an architect by training, mainly produced technical studies of ancient buildings. Beautifully printed by the widow of the great Lyon printer Louis Perrin, who died in 1865. Headbands worn, two jaws split and minor damage to binding, light scattered foxing. Atabey, n°1037 - Blackmer, n°1412.