A Description of the Trajan Column

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington Museum.

BINDING
Brown boards with embossed design and gilt lettering.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards have scuffing and general shelf wear. Printed pages and woodcuts remain mostly clear. A few notes and underlining in ink and pencil. Bookplate inside front cover. Fold out list at the end of the volume listing other publications is in good condition.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
Believed first edition, 1874.

DESCRIPTION
Illustrated with 45 woodcuts, most within the text. Octavo, 181 pp.

SYNOPSIS
A scholarly treatise on the history and construction of the Roman triumphal column, built in Rome to commemorate the Emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars.