Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol (Bollingen Series LII)
PANOFSKY, Dora & Erwin
Published for Bollingen Foundation Inc. by Pantheon Books, New York, 1956.  First Edition . Gilt stamped cloth hardcover light foxing for edges elsegood +;  in dust jacket with tears and wear else intact ; jacket design attributed to HERBERT BAYER (stated lower front flap) Pandora was the "pagan Eve," is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study, Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history of Pandora and of Pandora's box in European literature and art from Roman times to the present. Contains frontispiece, (xiv)-2, 158 pp with 60 monochrome illustrations on art paper throughout.