Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. This large and wonderfully illustrated hardback was published by Chancellor Press in 1997. Robert Graves provides the four page Introduction. 

The book is bound in pictorial stiff boards with a matching dust-jacket. Spine and front cover titles are in white against the cover design of a colour photograph. The book has 500 numbered pages and has 32 full colour and almost 560 black and white illustrations.

A comprehensive guide to world mythology which explores in detail the sources of human civilisation. Fascinating facts and legends from across the globe, covering the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Greece, Italy, China, Japan and India to name but a few.