Author: MATYSZAK, Philip
Title: The Classical Compendium
Description: New York, Thames & Hudson, 2009. Hardcover. 8vo. Lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine (only) ever-so-faintly sunned. Superbly tight and handsome first edition of this (to cite jacket front panel) "miscellany of scandalous gossip, bawdy jokes, peculiar facts and bad behavior from the ancient Greeks and Romans." Heavily illustrated. .

Keywords: Ancient World


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