With a sticker from Blackwell's booksellers to the front pastedown of The Legacy of Rome. With thirty four plates to the Legacy of Egypt, collated and complete The volume on Rome has pictorial gilt to the front board. With forty five plates to the Legacy of Israel, collated and complete. With forty plates to the Legacy of Islam, collated and complete. With forty plates to the Legacy of the Middle ages, collated and complete. With twenty plates to the Legacy of Greece, collated and complete. With thirty two plates to the Legacy of Rome, collated and complete. Under the initiative of John de Monins Johnson, the Oxford University Press began publishing these essay collections in the 1920s for university extension courses and the Workers' Educational Association. Six volumes of the Legacy series published by Oxford University Press. These six illustrated volumes from the Oxford University Press' Legacy series provide fascinating essays on Rome, Greece, the Middle Ages, Islam, Israel, and Egypt.