Product Description

The British Museum A-Z Companion provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the objects in the collections of the British Museum, from Achaemenid silver to Ziwiye treasure, Alexander the Great to Jean-Antoine Watteau, through Greek vases, Japanese pottery, Nebuchadnezzar, Quezalcoatl, and the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

This companion includes more than three hundred entries, with each chosen object or theme fully described and illustrated in colour; most entries also include suggestions for further reading on the subject. The British Museum A-Z Companion is also comprehensively indexed and cross-referenced, making it a useful research tool for all those interested in what has often been called "the world's greatest museum of mankind's history".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #376252 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

From Library Journal
This guidebook to the collections of the British Museum is arranged in a unique and interesting manner: alphabetically rather than by collection or museum department. Caygill (Treasures of the British Museum) hopes that this arrangement will allow museum visitors to view the collections in new ways. Although the book is not exhaustive, it does provide a useful introduction to the variety of objects in the museum, as well as areas and subjects that one might never have discovered otherwise. In addition, those seeking objects on a particular subject or artifacts of a given civilization will benefit. Every entry is accompanied by a clear and detailed photograph of one object and by a page of well-researched and scholarly information. The volume ends with plans/layouts of the museum's galleries, appendixes of fascinating information (the names of the kings of Assyria, numismatic terms, and terms used in printmaking), and a full and useful index. This novel and intriguing approach to guidebooks for museums should be in the reference collections of college libraries. Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, CT
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"This novel and intriguing approach to guidebooks for museums should be in the reference collection of college libraries." -- Library Journal

This novel and intriguing approach to guidebooks for museums should be in the reference collection of college libraries.
–Library Journal