17/23 Handsomely printed from new and large type on laid paper, and handsomely illustrated with twenty full-page plates in half-tone from photographs taken in Palmyra. Small 8vo, tastefully bound in parti-colored cloth, decorated in gold, with cameo portrait on side, gilt top, in a box. $2.50 A handsome holiday edition of a famous historical novel, still popular and worthy of preservation in an attractive form. The illustrations add considerably to its interest, depicting the ruins of a splendid civilization, that was at its zenith nearly two thousand years ago. |