Paperback. Yellow board binding with black title on the spine and mosaic image on the front board.

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A lovely well kept book which is exceedingly rare.

A Roman mosaic is a mosaic made during the Roman period, throughout the Roman Republic and later Empire. Mosaics were used in a variety of private and public buildings, on both floors and walls, though they competed with cheaper frescos for the latter. They were highly influenced by earlier and contemporary Hellenistic Greek mosaics, and often included famous figures from history and mythology, such as Alexander the Great in the Alexander Mosaic.

A large proportion of the surviving examples of wall mosaics come from Italian sites such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. Otherwise, floor mosaics are far more likely to have survived, with many coming from the fringes of the Roman Empire. The Bardo National Museum in Tunis has an especially large collection from large villas in modern Tunisia.

Dr David S. Neal, NDD, D.Litt, FSA, trained in graphic design and was head of archaeological illustration of the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate, and later became Senior Archaeologist, English Heritage. He has many years of experience in the study, illustration and publication of mosaic pavements, and is joint author of the major work on the mosaic pavements in Roman Britain, Roman Mosaics of Britain (2002–2010). In 2012 he joined forces with Warwick Rodwell, to illustrate and analyze the assemblage of medieval cosmatesque mosaics in Westminster Abbey, in which they published The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs (Oxbow, 2019).