Author: WARD-PERKINS, JOHN; CLARIDGE, AMANDA
Title: Pompeii A.D. 79: Treasures from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples and the Pompeii Antiquarium
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. BCE. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394504917. A full-sized book club edition of a catalogue of extant forms of art which date to the disastrous eruption of Vesuvius, in AD 79 which destroyed Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. Excavated centuries after the eruption, the treasures include statues, mosaics, paintings, murals, sculptures and other artifacts. The discoveries are displayed in both color and black & white. This work published in conjunction with the international "Pompeii A.D. 79" Exhibition. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, titling in blind to cover. Volume wrapped in jacket with representative art works to covers. --- A bright, tightly-bound, newish copy, though with inked date to front free endpaper and prior owner's circular embossed stamp to p.13. Price-clipped jacket with moderate chafing to extremities, else intact. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Quarto - 11 to 13 in. tall; 215 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

Keywords: 0394504917 >>Art / Architecture / Fashion >>European History