GUSMAN, Pierre. Pompeii. City - customs - arts. - Lot 207

GUSMAN, Pierre. Pompeii. City - customs - arts. A very fine copy of this impressive work on Pompeian art. Paris, Société française d'Éditions d'art L.-Henry May, s.d. [1899]. In-4, midnight-blue half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed with gilt dots, small gilt-lettered caissons, gilt filleting on covers and corners, covers preserved. VII, 476 pages; 600 vignettes and 32 color plates. Covers and corners rubbed, upper corner of second board scuffed, rare foxing. First edition of this magnificent illustrated description of the city and ruins of Pompeii. Entirely realized by the author, the numerous vignettes and plates are a precious witness to Pompeian art and life, all the more so as some plates reproduce frescoes that are no longer visible today. A magnificent illustrated testimony to Pompeian life in the High Empire.