Author: Dennis, George.
Title: THE CITIES AND CEMETERIES OF ETRURIA.
Description: John Murray, 1883. 3rd Ed. 2 vols. cxxviii + 501pp. + [iii] + xv + 579pp. + [i]. 22 plans including 4 folding, profusely ills., folding map. Very light marginal browning with e.ps. browned, inscriptions, ex.-libris W C Clarke-Thornhill Rushton Library, contemporary gilt tool edged half japon with cloth boards, gilt motifs and gilt lettered label to spines, minor marking, t.e.g. ¶ George Dennis (1814–1898), archaeologist. ODNB ‘... More lengthy visits to Italy were carried out by Dennis between 1844, when he obtained the agreement of John Murray to publish his book, and 1848, when it at last [first] appeared [the above work], in two volumes, consisted of 114 plus 1085 pages of text, and gave the most detailed descriptions that had yet appeared in any language of all recorded Etruscan sites. It was heavily illustrated with Dennis's own drawings ...’

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