by Marjorie Caygill · British Museum Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780714120331
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«Treasures of the British Museum» is Marjorie Caygill's illustrated guide to the British Museum, published by British Museum Press in paperback (240 pages).
A tour of celebrated British Museum pieces: the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, Egyptian mummies, drawings by Botticelli and Michelangelo, Assyrian reliefs, the Lewis chessmen and the Sutton Hoo treasure. Marjorie Caygill tells the stories of their discovery and frames them within the museum's history.
The 1985 edition includes 145 colour photographs and 150 in black and white, plus bibliography and index.
For art and history enthusiasts, and as a souvenir for those who have visited the British Museum or wish to learn about its collections.
