8vo. 74pp, [16]. With 80 monochrome photographic plates. Original publisher's grey paper boards, lettered in black, dustwrapper. Upper board nearly detached, slight dust-soiling and chipping to dustwrapper. Upper hinge exposed, lightly browned. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of FFEP; 'To Mason Hammond / with the affectionate / friendship / of / Bernard Berenson / (?) / Dec. 29 / 1952'.

A presentation copy of the first edition of American art historian Bernard Berenson's (1865-1959) analysis of the Arch of Constantine, Rome.

Mason Hammond (1903-2002), classical scholar at Harvard University. A dedicated antiquary and authority on Latin and the Roman Empire, Hammond published numerous historical monographs and served with the MFAA or 'Monuments Men' during The Second World War.