Handbooks to Ancient Civilizations Series

South American Archæology

An Introduction to the Archæology of the South American Continent, with special reference to the Early History of

Peru

By THOMAS A. JOYCE, M.A., Assistant in the Department of Ethnography, British Museum; Hon. Secretary, the Royal Anthropological Institute

Fully illustrated, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates in half-tone and line-drawings in the text, after photographs of remains and monuments, tracings of contemporary inscriptions, etc., also with a map. Demy 8vo (8 by 5 in.), cloth gilt, gilt top, 12s. 6d. net. (Postage, 5d.)

The special Prospectus may be had post free on request.

"Mr. Joyce gathers up into compassable size the work of many investigators in many parts of the Continent, and makes it possible for us to see almost at a glance a strange civilization." Cambridge Review.

"Mr. Joyce has contrived to make these dry bones live. . . . An illuminating example of the way in which pre-history may be reconstructed by the complementary labours of historian and archæologist."-Morning Post.

Mesopotamian Archæology

An Introduction to the Archæology of Babylonia and Assyria By PERCY S. P. HANDCOCK, M.A., formerly Assistant, Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum; Lecturer of the Palestine Exploration Fund Fully illustrated, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates in half-tone and line-draw

graphs of remains and

monuments, tracings of contemporary inscriptions, etc., also with maps. Demy 8vo (83 by 5 in.), cloth gilt, gilt top, 12s. 6d. net. (Postage, 5d.)

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From "Mesopotamian Archæology."

"Fills a want in the literature. . . . Out of the labours of these excavators Mr. Handcock has put before us with no little success a picture of the conditions of life."-The Times. "Architecture and sculpture, metallurgy, painting, cylinder seals, shell-engraving and ivory work, terra-cotta figures and reliefs, stoneware and pottery, dress, and military

accoutrements, are described in full detail, well illustrated, and ably commented upon.. Interesting from beginning to end."-Athenæum.

"After going through its well illustrated pages, the man in the street should know all that he wants to know about Mesopotamian culture. His book contains much other matter, including a very good and clear description of the system of cuneiform writing and its decipherment. The illustrations are well and carefully chosen, and give the reader an excellent key to the relative importance of much that we see in museums."— Pall Mall Gazette.

Other Volumes in Preparation:

PREHISTORIC

GREEK

ARCHEOLOGY

By H. R. H. HALL, M.A., Egyptian and Assyrian Department at the British Museum

MEXICAN ARCHEOLOGY

By THOMAS A. JOYCE, M.A., Author of "South American Archæology

Also a volume on THE EARLY CIVILIZATIONS OF INDIA, by LIONEL D. BARNETT, M.A., LITT.D., Keeper of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts at the British Museum.

Osiris and the Egyptian
Resurrection

By E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., LITT.D., Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum With nearly 200 illustrations after drawings from Egyptian papyri and monuments, of which the 2 large folding frontispieces are in colour and 4 plates are in collotype. In Two Volumes, Royal 8vo (10 by 6 in.), buckram boards gilt, with special binding design, £2 net.

the set.)

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(Postage, 8d.

"The method of treatment consists of giving, with abundant illustrations from documents, a study of Osiris in almost every capacity in which he figures on them. . . . The many and liberal translations of texts, some of them difficult and others recondite, which throughout support and supplement the author's own remarks, alone should make Dr. Budge's volumes permanently valuable as a rich storehouse for other workers in the same field. With regard to the Osirian religion, it gives all the facts that have yet come to light, and thus puts the reader in the best possible position for forming a judgment of his own upon them. It must henceforth be consulted by everyone who desires to deal with the subject."---Athenæum.

"He leads us through a misty and dark labyrinth . . . tracing a path from dim antiquity to the twentieth century, sometimes with success, always with interest. A work of great toil and learning. The illustrations are excellent."-The Times.

In preparation, uniform with the above:

The Book of the Dead (PAPYRUS OF ANI)

By E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., LITT.D.

In Two Volumes, uniform with "Osiris," cloth, 2 net.

A reprint, in handy form, of the folio volume issued in 1895, by special

permission of the Trustees of the British Musum. The second volume will contain 37 folding plates in full colours, reproducing the entire papyrus. The editorial work of Dr. Budge has been greatly amplified for this edition, in the light of the most recent discoveries.

Portraits of Dante

from Giotto to Raffael. A Critical Study, with a Concise Iconography

By RICHARD T. HOLBROOK

Copiously illustrated, in colour and monochrome, after the original Portraits in paintings and sculpture by Italian masters of the period, also

after early engravings, illuminated MSS., etc. Edition limited to 1,050 copies, of which 525 copies are reserved to the U.S.A. Printed on pure rag paper. Large crown 4to (10 by 7 in.), cloth gilt,

1 1s. net; whole green parchment, gilt, marbled endpapers, £1 11s. 6d. net. (Postage, 5d.)

"We can heartily congratulate him on the successful accomplishment of an important and intricate piece of work, which is a storehouse of information, and is likely to remain the standard authority on the subject for many years to come."--The Times.

"The student who wants to get at all the facts will have to read this book.. Ranging far and wide for every last scrap of information, Mr. Holbrook has beautifully clarified and arranged his items, and with his aid one may traverse the iconography of the poet as though

in some well ordered picture gallery."-New York Tribune.

The detailed Prospectus, with specimen plate, may be had post free.

Catalogue of an Exhibition

of Old Masters

Grafton Galleries, 1911

Published, for the Committee, in Aid of the National Art-Collections Fund Edited by ROGER E. FRY and MAURICE W. BROCKWELL. With 80 Full-Page Plates in Monochrome Collotype and a Photogravure Frontispiece. 1000 copies only printed. Large crown 4to (10 by 73 in.), cloth full gilt, with special design after a fine example by Roger Payne, now in the British Museum, 1 1. net; or in whole vellum boards, full gilt, with hand-marbled endpapers, £2 2s. net. (Postage, 5d.)

The special Prospectus, with specimen plate, may be had post free. "Indispensable, because it contains illustrations of many pictures never published before and unlikely to be published again . . . The volume is well worth its price, not only

because it makes a charming picture book, but because it is also an invaluable collection of documents."-Burlington Magazine.

"This splendid Catalogue. . . . An enormous amount of work has been given to its compilation. . . . But the pictures themselves are the things that matter, and in this Catalogue eighty works are admirably reproduced. Future generations will be grateful, as we are, for this collection of prints."-Morning Post.

Pewter and the Amateur Collector

By EDWARDS J. GALE

With 43 Plates illustrating typical specimens of fine Pewter - ware. Medium 8vo (9 by 6 in.), buckram, gilt top, 7s. 6d. net. (Postage, 5d.) "The historical sketch is clear and accurate. The hints and warnings to collectors . . cannot fail to be useful checks to impetuosity and self-confidence. The particular charm of this attractive book consists in the excellence of the forty-three plates, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic."-Athenæum.

Notes on the Post-Impressionist Painters, Grafton Galleries, 1910-II

By C. J. HOLMES Author of "Notes on the Science of Picture Making," etc.

Narrow crown 8vo, paper boards, 1s.

Few copies remain for sale.

net.

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The work will not be reprinted.

"A souvenir worth having of the almost famous exhibition.

It is a calm, thoughtful, and illuminating analysis of the movement that will grievously disappoint those who expect non-schismatic views from a sometime Oxford Professor of Fine Arts."-Manchester Guardian.

In Preparation, to be published Autumn, 1913:

A Child's Guide to

The National Gallery: THE ITALIANS

An Introduction to the Early Italian Pictures in the National Gallery

By GERTRUDE K. PEERS

Handy 8vo. Copiously illustrated.

The intention of this book is to consider the earlier paintings in the National Collection, not merely from the point of view of their place in the history of Art, but also as illustrations of the mental attitude of the times which produced them. The choice of subject from this standpoint becomes of first-rate importance, and the stories which provide the subject-matter of the pictures are, therefore, set forth in sufficient detail, and where possible in the forms familiar to the artists-as, for example, the version of the Legenda Aurea. Such a treatment will, it is hoped, appeal to those for whom it is particularly intended—namely, young people who are beginning to feel the attraction of the "primitive" painters, but who need some more easy "introduction" than, in themselves, the pictures usually afford to untrained modern eyes.

in General Literature

Mary the Mother of Jesus

An Essay

By ALICE MEYNELL

With 20 reproductions in Colour after the Water-colour Drawings by
R. ANNING BELL, R.W.S.

Printed on pure rag, toned paper; the plates mounted. Large crown quarto (10 by 7 in.), buckram gilt, 16s. net (postage, 6d.). Also a Special Edition of 250 numbered copies, on handmade paper (11 by 9 in.), whole vellum gilt, £2 2s. net (postage, 8d.).

Mrs. Meynell's essay in this book is a study of the influence exercised during nineteen centuries of modern civilization by the central idea of womanhood and innocence enshrined in the Virgin of Nazareth.

Not only were art, literature, philosophy and law directly related during fifteen centuries to that idea as told in Scripture, repeated by the poets, preserved by tradition and popularised in legend; that idea has also indirectly dominated the thought of the centuries following the Reformation; it is to be found, now incorrupt, now broken and deflected, in modern letters. All this, however, is to take up but one of many threads of thought and feeling which, as this

volume indicates, the hands of the Virgin have woven into the fabric of the social system of our civilization.

Mr. Anning Bell's decorative studies are well known. The inspiration of Italy has reached him not alone through the masterpieces of oil-colour and fresco, but also through the splendour, kindred but distinct, of the mosaics of Italy and Sicily. Freed from the immediate conventions of old schools, yet conscious of the immortality held within the name of Mary the Virgin, a modern picture of that familiar history appeared a worthy and not unnatural task. Discarding equally the aim of historical fidelity and the