Antoine Jean Letronne
Lettres d'un antiquaire à un artiste sur l'emploi de la peinture historique rurale dans la décoration des temples et des autres édifices publics on particuliers chez les grecs et les romains. Ouvrage pouvant servir de suite et de supplément a tous ceux qui traitent de l'histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité.
Paris: Heideloff et Campe, Libraires, 1828. 136 pages.
Antique volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", has been rebound in three-quarter dark red cloth and marbled red paper, with stamped title and publication date to spine. Solid binding is in excellent condition, with new endpapers. Original printed wrappers, displaying light wear, are bound in. Pages exhibit occasional light foxing.
Letronne (1787-1848) was a French classicist, epigrapher and archaeologist, considered the founder of the modern study of classical epigraphy.