Author: EDWARD GEORGE BULWER LYTTON
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Description: New York: Limited Editions Club At the Officina Bodoni, 1956. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Craemer. Limited, Signed, Numbered Edition Series; Color Illustrations; 8.20 X 5.60 X 1.30 inches; xxi, 513 pages; SIGNED AND NUMBERED 1187/1500 ON COLOPHON PAGE BY THE ARTIST [CRAEMER] AND PRINTER [MARDERSTEIG]. Hard cover is bound in full light gray Italian linen with a Pompeii design in a darker grey. Very slight rubbing to covers, pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Paper is high quality, Muslianco paper, printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona and illustrated with woodcuts by Kurt Craemer from designs he saw in Pompeii. Slip case is grey with paste down on spine. Slight rubbing. Classic Victorian tale of the last days of Pompeii. From poets to flower-girls, gladiators to Roman tribunes, here is a plausible story of their lives, their loves, and the tragic fate that awaited them. Extra heavy, 4#. ; Signed by Illustrator. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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