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Yale University Press, Published 1967. Hardcover, xxvii, 209 pp; 24 cm; second printing (October 1967) of the Revised Edition (first edition 1946, revised 1958); illustrated with 125 black-and-white plates and line drawings of vase shapes and figures in text.
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Rust-colored cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; mild edge and shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket teal with white and orange lettering, pictorial along the lower panel with a red-figure vase detail; price-clipped. A few snicks and short tears one inch or less to edges with associated creasing; fading to spine; mild overall shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Richter's classic survey of Attic red-figure vase painting, organized chronologically by style period from the Early Style (530-500 B.C.) through the Fourth Century and Kerch Style (370-330 B.C.). Drawing on her landmark 1936 two-volume Metropolitan Museum catalogue (with Lindsley F. Hall), Richter outlines technique, shapes, ornament, and inscriptions before turning to detailed treatments of the individual painters within each period, from the Andokides Painter and Euphronios through the Berlin and Kleophrades Painters to the Pan, Penthesilea, Niobid, Achilles, and Meidias Painters. Dedicated to J. D. Beazley.Contents: Preface; Abbreviations and Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Introduction (General, Subjects, Ornaments, Shapes, Inscriptions, Chronology); Technique (Preparation of the Clay, Fashioning of the Vase, Decoration of the Vase, The Firing, Accidents, Athenian Potteries); Chapter I, Early Style, about 530-500 B.C.; Chapter II, Ripe Archaic Style, 500-475 B.C.; Chapter III, Early Free Style, about 475-450 B.C.; Chapter IV, Free Style, about 450-420 B.C.; Chapter V, Late Fifth-Century Style, about 420-390 B.C.; Chapter VI, The Fourth Century (including The Kerch Style and Vases with Reliefs); Notes; Index.