Stories by an archaeologist and his friends.
Contributors: Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876 (printer)
Publisher: Bell and Daldy
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Notes: Published anonymously. By Henry Noel Humphreys.

Printer's imprint at end of each vol.: Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham ...

Publisher's advertisements on [2] p. preceding half-title page. in vol. 2.

T.p. printed in red and black.

MASS copy: Bound in green ribbed morocco-grain cloth blocked in blind with title blocked in gold on spine.
Table of contents: value: v.1. The bibliophilist's story: The lost books of Livy. The botanist's story: The crimson drop. The numismatist's story: The pentadrachm of Ptolemy. The English archaeologist's first story: Discoverers and their persecutors. The surgeon's story: The imperial barber; value: v.2. The young painter's story: The student of the Vatican. The biographer's story: The field of May. The Spaniard's story: The auletes (a numismatic anecdote). The archaeologist's second story: The figure in the tapestry. The Spaniard's second story: The Manola of Puerto-de-Santa-Maria.