ROMAN BOOKS AND THEIR IMPACT.
Pp. x+96, printed in purple & black, 23 plates (5 coloured, including one double page), 3 figures, notes, select bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; pictorial grey cloth, spine with gilt lettered & decorated black leather skiver label, edges of boards a trifle browned; t.e.g., others uncut; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little light foxing; The Elmete Press, Leeds, 1977. First edition, limited to 460 numbered copies. *An adapted and enlarged version of the Sir D. Owen Evans Memorial Lectures given at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. (The author was Professor of Latin in the University of Leeds). The cover design is based on the central panel of a fourth-century mosaic pavement found in Somerset, illustrating an episode from Virgil's Aenid. Item #164616
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