Buy this book on-line TREVELYAN,RALEIGH: : THE SHADOW OF VESUVIUS,Pompeii AD 79LONDON.THE FOLIO SOCIETY MCMLXXVI (1976). ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim Qrto HB,minus glassine dw/dj,1st edn thus.FINE+.No owner inscrptn,minus issued glassine dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,
sharp-cornered,publisher's original cream paper-covered boards gilt,impressed decorated front board,a quarter brown cloth blind spine/backstrip with bright,
crisp,stamped gilt letters to same,
immaculate illustrated pale blue eps printed in dark blue; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or bumps present.
Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim Qrto HB,
minus glassine dw/dj,1st edn thus,11- 128pp [paginated] includes VI(6) chapters, 94 numbered images,43 in full colour, printed lithographically with the text. They reproduce portraits,paintings,
etchings and drawings made during the excavations of Pompeii in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,
and b/w+colour photographs of the ruins as they were in 1976,and notes on the illustrations,plus [unpaginated] half- title page with colour pictorial artwork illustrated frntis (The eruption of Vesuvius,8 August 1778 from engraving by Francesco Piranesi,coloured by Jean-Louis Desprez) to it's reverse,a title page illustrated within a colour reproduction of one of John Goldicutt's drawings published in 'Specimens of ancient decorations from Pompeii'(1825),a contents list/table with acknowledgements to it's reverse and an introduction and two further etchings of Vesuvius are reproduced on the endleaves.Printed and bound by Jarrold & Sons Ltd.,Norwich.Set in 11 point 'Monophoto' Times New Roman,
spaced 2 points with Castellar for display.
To Society's Presentation Volume for 1977.
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