First edition, first impression. 186pp. Ochre cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. Monochrome portrait plate frontispiece. Maps on endpapers. 8vo. Cloth slightly pushed at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Original laminated and illustrated dust jacket, Slightly misfitted, bumped along upper edge, a little sunned on spine.
George Dennis (1814-1898) was a solitary explorer, and a well-regarded archaeologist of the Victorian era. His written accounts and drawings of ancient sites in Etruria remain a key reference for Etruscan studies
