LANE, A., — Greek Pottery.

Faber and Faber, London, 1971. 64,96p. Richly ills.(8 full colour and 96 B&W photographs). Original black cloth with pictorial dust wrappers. Spine with gilt titled vignette. Dust wrappers a little bit edge wrinkled. Signature on free endpaper. 'Although intended as a popular account and excellentyl illustrated, te text is free of synthetic enthusiasm; instead we are given a clear and sensitive exposition in an unobtrusively elegant style. The book contains seven pages on technique, nine on use, shape and ornament; four on historical outline; and the equivalent of thirty pages of commentary on the plates. (...) finally there is a good index. In the fifteen years since the book was first published there have, of course, been new discoveries of which Lane has taken notice in this revised edition. The principal alterations are in the chapter on technique and also in the bibliography. (...) This is one of those rare books where both text and illustrations can be enjoyed for style and good taste as well as for instruction.' (R.M. COOK in The Classical Review (New Series), 1965, p.132).