King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 12
withsufficient accuracy to enable me to form a correct judgment on theirmerits. Merely to have transcribed from library catalogues (as Millinhas done) the titles of such books, without any knowledge of their realvalue, would have served no other end than by a false parade of onesown reading to… … TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preface ....Description of Woodcuts in the Text Introduction . . . . Tests of Antiquity in Engraved Gems, and the Instruments the Ancient Engravers .On the Forms of Antique Gems .Cylinders—Assyrian, Babylonian, PersianBabylonian and Assyrian Deities .Cones and Hemispherical Seals…
Gems · Rings · Classical antiquities · Art, Ancient
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