Author: Ward, William Hayes:

Title: The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia.

Publication: Washington D.C.: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919.

Description: 4to., pp, xxix, [iii], 428. Copious illustrations in the text. Very occasional light foxing. Dark Blue buckram, gilt title to spine. Spine a little darkened, a few small white marks to boards, endpapers toned, a very good copy.

1919 reprint by the Columbia Planograph Company of the 1910 original. Publication number 100 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In his Preface, Ward writes: 'My purpose has been, passing by the Egyptian cylinders, as already sufficiently given to the public, to provide as complete a monograph as possible of the cylinder art of Western Asia, from Persia to Palestine and Cyprus, and to classify the cylinders by countries and subjects. I have especially desired to study the forms under which the gods and their emblems were worshiped, so that we may add pictorial representations to the literary material which a host of scholars have gathered.'

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Reference Number: [55098]

Price: £100

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