Pandora's Box | The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol (Bollingen Series LII | 52)
Panofsky, Dora and Erwin Panofsky
(Book #ID 107422)
Published for Bollingen Foundation Inc. by Pantheon Books, New York First Edition 1956. 1956.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter black cloth, brick red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Pandora was the "pagan Eve," is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study, Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history of Pandora and of Pandora's box in European literature and art from Roman times to the present. Contains frontispiece, (xiv)-2, 158 pp with 60 monochrome illustrations on art paper throughout. Some sentences underlined by a previous reader, interesting notes to the rear end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading down the spine, not price clipped, $4.00. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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