John L. Myres
Published: 2016-09-14
Total Pages: 656
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Excerpt from Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities From Cyprus To the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the writer of this Handbook owes a large debt of gratitude, for the privilege of study so prolonged and intimate. His thanks are due no less to the Director of the Museum and to members of the Staff in every degree, for assistance of many kinds, ungrudgingly given; for the long labour of cleaning and rearranging the objects; and for the preparation of text and illustrations for the printer. Above all, in the Assistant Curator of Classical Antiquities, Miss Gisela M. A. Richter, he has had a colleague whose knowledge, judgment, and resourcefulness have been invaluable. Besides the general super vision of work in New York, in the intervals between the writer's visits to the Museum, and the laborious verification of references and measurements, Miss Richter has read the whole Handbook both in manuscript and in proof; and has made many valuable criticisms and suggestions in detail. By a fortunate coincidence, her own work on the Museum's collection of Bronzes and Glass was going on side by side with the preparation of this Handbook, and in essentials the arrangement of the Glass is hers, while that of the Bronzes owes much to her intimate acquaintance with the material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
