From Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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viii, 167, [1], 16pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped olive green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and dulled. Upper hinge exposed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title: 'Charles Hall Esq. / With the Author's kind / regards.' The first edition of a succinct survey of the politics, religion, and culture of pre-Anglo-Saxon Britain by poet and philologist William Barnes (1801-1886). The recipient of the present copy was likely Mr. Charles Hall of Osmington House, Dorset, a close friend of Barnes who contributed duplicate specimens of British and Saxon antiquities from his collection to assist Barnes in establishing the Dorset County Museum. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # AQ28779
Bibliographic Details
Title: Notes on ancient britain and the britons
Publisher: John Russell Smith, London
Publication Date: 1858
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First edition.
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