Author: WOODHEAD, A.G.,
Title: The Study of Greek Inscriptions.
Description: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1967 Reprint 1st.ed. XI,139p. ills.(3 figures and 4 plates). Original blue hard bound with dust wrappers. Spine gilt titled. Name and date on paste-down end paper. Edges dust wrappers slightly and partly rust stained to inside. 'From the outset W. makes it clear that this book has been written mainly for the non-specialist (Among the non-specialists W. has in mind the historian and in particular the student of Athenian history), who in his own field often comes across inscriptions as an important source and, accordingly, wants to know how to handle this material. For such people W.'s book provides an extremely helpful instrument. In ten chapters W. gives ample information, among other things on 'technical' aspects as 'Signs and Symbols' (ch. I) and 'Squeezes and Photographs' (ch. VIII), on such difficult and subtle matters as the dating and restoration of inscriptions (ch. V and VI) and on the different categories of inscriptions (ch. IV: 'The Classification of Greek Inscriptions').' (H.W. PLEKET in Mnemosyne, 1960, p.331).

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