Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, no date.  Hard cover, 255 pages.  Very good; faded blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine; embossed decoration and lettering on front and spine, embossed decoration on rear board.  A bit of corner and spine end wear; binding sound.  Illustrated end papers and colour frontis; interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘The ancient city of Pompeii, lying in the plain of Campania at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, was buried under the showers of lava that flowed from the volcano in A.D. 79, the first year of the reign of the Emperor Titus. … Lytton in his novel draws a vivid picture of Roman life in the years preceding the great calamity.’ (from Introduction)