Condition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear. Endpapers dark blue/black with quote from Thomas Carlyle and woman standing on open book. Some fading to spine. Hardback in red cloth boards w black/gilt titling boxes. A few page corners were turned down and creased. See images for the condition of this book.
Blurb: The Last Days of Pompeii was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of the virtuous Greeks Glaucus and Ione, their escape from Pompeii amid the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, and their eventual conversion to Christianity, against a background of Roman decadence and corrupt Eastern religion.