The Art of Rome.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1977]. Hardcover. Translation by Robert Erich Wolf. 4to. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering and color oval pictorial plate to front board, pictorial dust jacket. 655pp. Extensive illustrations (most color; some foldouts) and floor plans. Very good/very good. Like any extra-heavy volume, this 9+ pound lap-crusher invariably and inevitably develops weak inner hinges from its own weight and to prevent this both inner hinges bear old but neat black cloth tape along hinges for strengthening; binding pristine and text block superb; jacket just a tad worn at corners. Item #52309
ISBN: 0810906260
Lovely first edition of this massive, thorough survey of Roman art from a scholarly and sophisticated perspective. As jacket flap notes, "This volume amply displays the unique quality of Roman art -- as the expression of a complex political system that encompassed geographical areas stretching across Europe, England, North Africa, and large regions of Asia."
Price: $100.00