Jenkyns, Richard — The Victorians and Ancient Greece

Oxford, England, Basil Blackwell, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Black cloth over boards, clean, bright, unmarked interior. Bumping to spine head and foot. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn edges, sunned along spine and top edge. Jenkyns highlights the Victorian-era focus on both gothic but also Classical strains in art and literature, history and popular culture, e.g., the Greek revival in architecture and rise of the neo-Classical painters. Jenkyns also authored Dignity and Decadence. A nce range of black-and-white plates, printed on high-gloss paper. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xi [2], 3-386 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Fair,