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1873 History of Ancient Pottery: Egyptians, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman
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Description
Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding
The new and revised edition, being the first edition to be condensed into one volume.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome vignettes, twelve plates, with eleven being coloured. Collated, complete.
Bound in full vellum, with gilt tooling to the spine and borders.
A study on ancient pottery, by the Egyptologist Samuel Birch. This fantastic celebration of historical art covers pottery from ancient Egypt and Rome, and Etruscan, Celtic and Oriental pottery, and more. Samuel Birch was a renowned Egyptologist and antiquarian who is best known for his historical works on Ancient Egypt, and his translations of 'The Book of the Dead'.
Condition
Bound in full vellum. Externally very smart with light marks to the boards and spine, minimal bumping to the extremities of the boards. Bookplate of George F. White to the front pastedown, with front hinge starting at the head. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with only light spotting to the blanks, and a bookseller's stamp to the front blank.
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