Coptic Art

London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. 1st English edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 259 pp. Twenty-three colorplates and 133 illustrations in black and white. Translated by Jean Carroll and Sheila Hatton. Bibliography. Index. Wessel has compiled a comprehensive and penetrating study of Egyptian art at a time when paganism was ending and Christendom was preparing to assume sole mastery of the Roman Empire.