Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 1): Zeus god of the bright sky (Cambridge, 1914)

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Preface

has compared the drawings of vases with the vases themselves, and
to Miss P. B. Mudie Cooke, who has verified illustrations and
references for me in the Reading Room. In the Department of
Coins and Medals Mr G. F. Hill and the late Mr W. Wroth like-
wise gave me valuable help, partly by discussing various numismatic
problems, and partly by supplying*me with scores of casts taken
from the coins under their charge. Mr F. H. Marshall, formerly of
the British Museum, has sent me impressions of gems in the Gold
Room, and Monsieur E. Babelon has furnished me with the cast
of an unpublished coin in the Paris cabinet. Permission to have
drawings made from objects in their possession was granted to
me by Mr R. M. Dawkins, Mr F. W. Green, and Dr W. H. D.
Rouse ; permission to reproduce blocks, by Messrs F. Bruckmann
and Co., Monsieur l'Abbe H. Breuil, and Sir William M. Ramsay.
Mr J. R. McClean, who was always eager to put his magnificent
collection of Greek coins at the service of classical scholarship,
generously allowed me to anticipate his Catalogue by figuring
several of his most interesting specimens, and but a few weeks before
his death contributed a large sum towards the better illustration of
this work. Another liberal donation to the same object, enhanced
by a letter of rare kindness, has reached me from my friend and
fellow-lecturer the Rev. Dr A. Wright, Vice-President of Queens'
College.

Of the subjects represented in my first volume thirteen coins
and one relief were drawn for me by the late Mr F. Anderson,
official draughtsman to the British Museum. - But the main bulk
of the drawings has been made by an equally gifted artist,
Miss E. N. Talbot of Saint Rhadegund's House, Cambridge. To
her scrupulous exactitude and unremitting industry I am indebted
for no fewer than three hundred and twenty-five of my cuts, in-
cluding the two coloured designs and the restorations attempted in
plates vi, xv, xxiii, and xl. Nor must I omit to thank another
craftsman of first rate ability, Mr W. H. Hayles of the Cavendish
Laboratory, who visited more than one museum on my behalf and,
though working against time ari*d not always in ideal conditions,
produced a series of exceptionally good photographs.

The Syndics of the University Press by undertaking financial
responsibility for the whole work have shouldered a heavy burden
with little or no hope of ultimate remuneration. Apart from their
timely assistance this book would have remained a pile of musty
manuscript. Moreover, at every stage of its production I have