Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Periods in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography in the British Museum
London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. lxxvii, [2] 180pp., xxxvii plates. Original red cloth with blind-stamped ruling on covers, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece Cameo , reproduced in photogravure, with tissue guard. Collection of post-classical gems in the British Museum illustrating the development of the gem-engraver's art between Roman times and the early 20th Century. Profusely illustrated with in-text b/w gravure reproductions of gems and lithographic reproductions of 1112 gems on 37 plates at rear. Contains descriptive catalog of gems, general and indices of inscriptions and gem-engravers. Bibliography at the front.
Binding with light wear along edges and spine very lightly sunned. Minor rubbing to extremities. Some plain offsetting to endpapers. Block lightly age-toned. Very good+ condition. Item #54479
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