Author: Beard, Mary
Title: Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Description: London, Folio Society, 2013. Hardcover. Dark orange cloth boards with gilt lettering; green slipcase; xxx, 378 pp.; 32 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. "Destroyed by Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of what life was like during the reign of the Roman Empire. In this book, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains, painting an exhaustive portrait of an ancient town." -- WorldCat. This gorgeous book will make an excellent gift!. New, in original publisher's shrinkwrap, which has a small rip at a corner .

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