COLDSTREAM, J N — Geometric Greece

New York, St.Martin's Press. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0312323654) Hardcover. Book, Mammoth and comorehensive text (overweight volume) concerning "The Geometric Style of pottery [which] flourished in Greece during the 9th and 8th centuries BC. : a most creative age which saw the dawn of Hellenic civilization and the evolution of the Greek city-state, the composition of the Homeric poems, the invention of the Greek alphabet after several centuries of illiteracy, the rebirth of figured art, the rise of the Panhellenic Sanctuaries . and the first exodus of the Greek colonists to the shores of South Italy and Sicily." 405p. illus diagrams maps bibliography.index. Tight bright copy, but marked with some (quite interesting and pertinent) comments and underlinings. Good>Very Good/Very Good.