Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol

Dora and Erwin Panofsky

Published by Bollingen Foundation /Pantheon Books, NY, 1956
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Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 158 pages, b&w illustrations. In publisher's original quarter black cloth, brick red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Pandora was the "pagan Eve," is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study, Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history of Pandora and of Pandora's box in European literature and art from Roman times to the present. Contains frontispiece, 60 monochrome illustrations on art paper throughout. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Record # 400352. Seller Inventory # 400352

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Title: Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a ...
Publisher: Bollingen Foundation /Pantheon Books, NY
Publication Date: 1956
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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