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Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt

Year: 1883 (1880s)

Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918

Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities

Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

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ods and Introduction, XI principal results of a science, which, having made good its claims tothe gratitude of mankind, is progressing with a step which becomesdaily more assured. The task is an arduous one, and the continualdiscoveries which are reported from nearly every quarter of theancient world, make it heavier every day. As for my colleagueand myself, we have resigned ourselves in advance to seeingomissions and defects pointed out even by the most benevolentcritics, but we are convinced that in spite of such imperfections asit may contain, our work will do good service, and will cause oneof the aspects of ancient civilization to be better understood. Thisconviction will sustain us through the labours which, perhaps withsome temerity, we have taken upon us. How far shall we beallowed to conduct our history ? That we cannot tell, but we mayventure tcT promise that it shall be the chief occupation and thedearest study of all that remains to us of life and strength. Georges Perrot.

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TO THE READER. We have been in some doubt as to whether we should append a special biblio-graphy to each section of this work, but after mature reflection we have decidedagainst it. We shall, of course, consider the art of each of the races of antiquity inless detail than if we had undertaken a monograph upon Egyptian, upon Assyrian,or upon Phoenician art; but yet it is our ambition to neglect no source of informationwhich is likely to be really valuable. From many of the books and papers whichwe shall have to consult we may reproduce nothing but their titles, but we hope thatno. important work will escape us altogether, and in every case we shall givereferences which may be easily verified. Under these circumstances a formal list ofworks would be a mere repetition of our notes and would only have the effect ofgiving a useless bulk to our volumes. Whene\er oar drawings have not been taken directly from the originals we havebeen careful to indicate the source from which we obtained the