The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii A. D. 79 by Trevelyan, Raleigh

Joseph, 1976. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Joseph, 1976. Hardcover. Good.

Michael Joseph Ltd, 1976. Jacket is in brodart, light wear. Boards have light wear. Usual library/discard markings. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-School Library.

Hardback. Good.

Great Britain: Raleigh Travelyan, 1976. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have only minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

(London: Michael Joseph, 1976) 0718115570. 4to; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 128; profusely illustrated, in colour and monochrome. Short tear to top edge of dustwrapper's lower panel; a little light spotting; gift inscription to front endpaper. Very good condition. "The turn of fate which revealed the lost cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum began in 1710 when a peasant, digging a well, struck marble from the theatre of Herculaneum. The discoveries in the two centuries that followed produced a revolution in artistic taste, affecting furniture, decoration and art in the whole civilized world. Raleigh Trevelyan's vivid narrative gives a striking personal impression of this ghostly city. He gives, too, an entertaining history of the slow unfinished striptease of time which gradually, tantalizingly, is revealing one of the greatest storehouses of treasures the world has seen, the source of much of our knowledge… Read More

London: The Folio Society. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 1976. First FS Edition. Cream and gilt illustrated paper boards. 250mm x 200mm (10" x 8"). 128pp. .

Michael Joseph, 1976-11-08. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.7986 in x 25.3807 in x 18.9856 in.

Joseph, London, 1978. Second impression. 128p. ills. Bound. Nice copy.

London : Joseph, 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 128 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 26 cm. Subjects; Eruption. Neoclassicism (Art). Mural painting and decoration, Roman. Antiquities in art. Volcanoes Italy. Pompeii (Extinct city) Buildings, structures, etc. Architecture, Roman Pompeii (Extinct city). Pompeii (Extinct city). Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79. Herculaneum Antiquities. Italy Herculaneum & Pompeii Archaeology to ca 1970.