The Legacy of Rome.

FOLIGNO, Cesare; Ernest Barker; H. Stuart Jones; G. H. Stevenson; F. de Zulueta; H. Last; et al. Edited by Cyril Bailey.

Item Number: 129186

London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Finely bound example of Bailey’s comprehensive work on the legacy Ancient Rome left on the modern world. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings and maps, frontispiece. Edited by Cyril Bailey. Introduction by the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith. In fine condition.

An endeavor to trace in many fields the extent of the inheritance which the modern world owes to Ancient Rome, The Legacy of Rome contains: The Transmission of the Legacy by Cesare Foligno; The Conception of Empire by Ernest Barker, The Science of Law by F. de Zulueta, Religion and Philosophy by Cyril Bailey, and Literature by J.W. Mackail among several other surveys.