The British Museum yearbook. 1 : the classical tradition

London : British Museum, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; British Museum Yearbook ; 1. Physical description; [9], 298 p., ill. (some col.), facsims., 1 map, 28 cm. Notes; Periodical published for the Trustees of the British Museum. Preceded (1926-1973) by : The British Museum Quarterly, which was for part of its life published on an irregular basis. Includes index. Contents; Contents : Magenta ware / Reynold Higgins -- Architecture on ancient coins / M Jessop Price -- Parthian gold from Nineveh / J E Curtis -- Gold and silver coin hoards and the end of Roman Britain / R A G Carson -- The Malcolm celestial globe / R H Pinder-Wilson -- A Bacchic sarcophagus in the Renaissance / Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein -- An attack on the Accademia di S Luca : Ludovico David's L'Amore dell'Arte / Nicholas Turner -- Blake and the antique / Andrew Wilton -- Notes on selected acquisitions in 1974. Subjects; British Museum (London). Classical antiquities. Classicism in art.