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© Sarah Goldsmith 2020

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978-1-912702-21-3 (hardback edition)

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DOI 10.14296/1120.9781912702251

Cover image: Pierre-Jacque Volaire, ‘An Eruption of Vesuvius by Moonlight’ (CVCSC:0259.S, 1774). By permission of Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK and Bridgeman Images.