The Last Days of Pompeii

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. c. 1834? Binding: contemporary blue cloth, title in white ink on upper board, flat spine, upper board with decorative blue rulings and decorative white ink flowers.

, Notes: The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative MP from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder of British Columbia. He declined the Crown of Greece in 1862 after King Otto abdicated. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. Bulwer-Lytton's works were popular and paid him well.
, Size: 8vo., , Category: Book Literature. In very good condition.

. Item #B6180

Binding: contemporary blue cloth, title in white ink on upper board, flat spine, upper board with decorative blue rulings and decorative white ink flowers.

, Notes: The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative MP from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder of British Columbia. He declined the Crown of Greece in 1862 after King Otto abdicated. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. Bulwer-Lytton's works were popular and paid him well.
, Size: 8vo., , Category: Book Literature.

Price: $75.00

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