The Art of Rome

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. 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.".