The British Museum yearbook. 2 : collectors & collections
1977, First Edition. London : British Museum Publications Ltd for the Trustees. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #289266
ISBN: 0714100560
Series; British Museum Yearbook ; 2. Physical description; 276 p., ill. (some col.), plans, ports., 28 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Connoisseurs of champlevé Limoges enamels in eighteenth century England / Simone Caudron -- The Townley marbles in Westminster and Bloomsbury / Brian Cook -- T E Bowdich : an early collector in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod -- Charles Roach Smith and his museum of London antiquities / Dafydd Kidd -- Alfred Maudslay and the discovery of the Maya / Ian Graham -- Chinese porcelain of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the John Addis Gift / Basil Gray -- Notes on selected acquisitions in 1975. Subjects; British Museum (London). Collectors and collecting.
Price: €32.00