History of Ancient Pottery Birch Paperback Cambridge University Press

History of Ancient Pottery\n\nThis two-volume, highly illustrated 1858 work discusses the pottery of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome.\n\nSamuel Birch (Author)\n\n9781108081900, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback, published 2 April 2015\n\n444 pages\n21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg\n\nThe Egyptologist Samuel Birch (1813\u201385) began to study Chinese at school, and obtained his first post at the British Museum cataloguing Chinese coins. He maintained his interest in Chinese civilisation throughout his life, but also collaborated with C. T. Newton on a catalogue of Greek and Etruscan vases, and with Sir Henry Rawlinson on cuneiform inscriptions, while also specialising in the examination and cataloguing of the Museum's growing collection of Egyptian papyri and other artefacts. Birch describes this two-volume, highly illustrated work on ancient pottery, published in 1858, as filling a perceived need: 'A work has long been required which should embody the general history of the ]