Marcus the Briton: A Romance of Roman London

128pp, colour frontispiece. Cream pictorial cloth-covered boards, red titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine. Lightly rubbed and bumped spine ends. Soiling to covers. Very lightly bumped corners. Dusty top text block edge, edges foxing. Signature binding. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Hinges stretched at endpapers; cracked at top rear hinge. Presentation plate on front pastedown; previous owner's stamp on front endpaper. Internally neat, clean and bright. Four black and white illustrations in text throughout. Chronicles Carausius making himself emperor of Britain in a.d. 287 to the end of the British Empire and return of Romans and death of Allectus in battle in 296. Covering: the state of Rome; the rise and fall of Carausius; Constantius Chlorus; the army and navy; religion; coinage and forts.