Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hubert Robert and Wilhelm Trübner. An argument that the myths of the nations are the broken remains of one original revelation, made by a Catholic peer in the years when comparative mythology was new and the stakes felt high. This edition is bound with sixty plates of paintings by Hubert Robert, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Leopold Pollak and others, dating from 1775 to 1900 and showing gardens, fountains and temples.