Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1,2): Cypriote, Italian, and Etruscan pottery (London, 1912)

PREFACE.

When the present Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum 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.

Volume I, Part II., deals with the pottery of Cyprus, the early Italian
fabrics, and the Etruscan pottery in the strict sense of that term. Some
preparations were made by Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith, now Director of the
Victoria and Albert Museum, but the second part of Volume I. is mainly the
work of Mr. H. B. Walters, Assistant-Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities.

The proofs have been read by M.essrs. F. H. Marshall, E. J. Eorsdyke,
F. N. Pryce, and by myself.

Arthur Hamilton Smith.

Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
June 1, 1912.

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