Excerpt from A Design and Prospectus for a National Gallery of History and Art at Washington Several illustrations of the interiors and ornamentation of The Pompeia are inserted with the following statements in support of the above opinions. During eight months since its completion, without any previous announcement, and with ignorance on the part of many of what is a Pompeian House, it has been visited by over people, whose stay has averaged between two and three hours. The most intelligent; classic professors and other scholars, have made it a daily resort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.