Excerpt from Egyptian Ceramic Art: The Macgregor Collection; A Contribution Towards the History of Egyptian Pottery Most ceramists must be aware that the amount of information respecting Egyptian pottery to be Obtained from books is very limited compared with that which is attainable from the same source on the wares of other countries. The state of the case is clearly seen on consulting the Classed Catalogue Ceramics, ' issued by the National Art Library, South Kensington. The works on Greek pottery are truly a formidable phalanx, and the information therein is methodical and, if not exhaustive, ample and convincing. Those on the different centres of production in Italy are scarcely less copious, and so also with the arts of other lands. Turning to the volumes in the section Egypt, it will be found that the treatment of the subject therein is, relatively, too often cursory and inadequate. It is certainly not up to the level of the achievement of research into the history of art generally, which has been conducted with such conspicuous success during the Nineteenth Century. The reason of the apparent shortcoming is twofold: it is impossible to indite the history of any art without either authentic contemporary documents or the tangible examples of that art. Now, in the present case the former do not exist, perhaps they never did (although it is within the bounds of possibility that a Pottery Papyrus may some day be discovered) and as to the latter, until recently they have been of extreme scarcity, and those few which had been identified were widely scattered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.