Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Periods in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography in the British Museum

by O. M. Dalton

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First edition

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.

• Binding: Hardcover

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