The Lourve

328pp, profusely illustrated in rich colour.  Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  Blue-grey endpapers.  Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original glossy dust jacket, just a little shelf worn and very slightly bumped on extreme edges.

A lavish guide to and history of the Louvre museum in Paris.  Dubbed the ‘museum of the people’ in 1848, today the Louvre houses arguably the most comprehensive collection of art and antiquities in the world.  This handsome and imposing volume provides a tour through its halls and galleries, steeped in history and beauty, where hang some some of the finest artworks ever created, many faithfully reproduced here in rich and high-quality colour illustrations.