THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

Published by G. Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street, London, 1854

About this Item

Later edition - 1854 - originally published in 1834. ***Two-page dedication to Sir William Gill by the author. Two prefaces by the author: eight-page preface to the first edition, 1830; two-page preface to the present edition, 1850. Black and white steel-engraved illustrated frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne showing: "Nydia and Ione (to illustrate page 89). ***Good in half-leather and marbled boards. Five compartments, gilt decorative rules and floral designs to spine, and blind decorative rules to edges of spine and corners on front and rear boards. Grey-green front and rear endpapers and pastedowns. Boards rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Spine tight. Edges of boards rubbed. Spine tight. Sporadic light foxing to prelims and rear pages. Interior pages clean.*** xvi prelim-pages, frontispiece, plus 304 pages. ***'On visiting those disinterred remains of an ancient City, which more perhaps than either the delicious breeze or the cloudless sun, the violet valleys and orange groves of the south, attract the traveller to the neighbourhood of Naples; on viewing, still fresh and vivid, the houses, the streets, the temples, the theatres of a place existing in the haughtiest age of the Roman empire - it was not unusual, perhaps, that a writer who had before laboured, however unworthily, in the art to revive and to create, should feel a keen desire to people once more those deserted streets, to repair those graceful ruins, to reanimate the bones which were yet spared to his survey; to traverse the gulf of eighteen centuries, and to wake to a second existence - the city of the Dead!' (Quote by the author from the preface to the first edition, 1834). ***The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. ***A nice mid-19th century edition of this classic work. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***. Seller Inventory # 2961

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

Publisher: G. Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street, London

Publication Date: 1854

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Hablot K. Browne (frontispiece)

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued