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[Greek and Etruscan Vases]. FORSDYKE, EJ, HB WALTERS and Cecil H SMITH [cumulatively] E J H BBiblio.com
Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum four volumes in five
1893142910London: British Museum 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London British Museum 1893 to 1925 all first editions. Small quarto four volumes in five full details below; original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the spines; minimal signs of age and use but essentially in excellent condition throughout. Volume I Part I: Prehistoric Aegean Pottery by E.J. Forsdyke 1925; xliv 228 pages with numerous illustrations plus 16 plates. <p>Volume I Part II: Cypriote Italian and Etruscan Pottery by H.B. Walters 1912; xxxii 276 pages with numerous illustrations plus 34 plates. <p>Volume II: Black-figured Vases by H.B. Walters 1893; iv 314 pages with '40 illustrations in text' plus 7 plates. <p>Volume III: Vases of the Finest Period by Cecil H. Smith 1896; vi 426 pages with '28 illustrations in text' plus 28 plates. <p>Volume IV: Vases of the Latest Period by H.B. Walters 1896; vi 276 pages with '30 illustrations in text' plus 16 plates. <p>The out-of-sequence dates of publication of the two parts of the first volume are explained in the respective prefaces. The one in Part II 1912 notes that 'When the present Catalogue . was planned in 1891 Volume I was assigned to the vases then exhibited in the First Vase Room which are for the most part of an early date and represent the beginnings of Greek Vase-painting in many places and styles. The subsequent growth of the collection especially in the sections dealing with Crete and Cyprus has made it necessary to divide the volume into two parts the second of which is the first to be ready for issue'. <p>The preface in Part I 1925 adds that 'The lapse of time consequent on the interruption of the War and the further growth of the collection have caused an additional sub-division. The Second Part of Vol. I is devoted to the special groups of Cypriote Early Italian and Etruscan Vases. The Third Part when it appears will deal with the Geometric Early Corinthian and Ionian wares intermediate between the prehistoric pottery of Part I and the black figure vases which are the subject of Vol. II'. This Part III appears not to have been published. 5 items. British Museum hardcover
