Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921
A commemorative volume printed in London in 1921 for Sir Charles Hercules Read's retirement, cataloguing objects acquired by the British Museum's Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography between 1896 and 1921, aimed at curators and collectors. Halftone photographs isolate single artefacts on plain grounds — enamelled bronze discs, inscribed seals, carved wood and stone heads — giving designers crisp silhouettes, incised pattern, and lettered circular borders.
