The Briton and the Roman on the Site of Taunton
PRING, James Hurly
AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: W Cheston Taunton, 1880
Stock code: 49736
Price: £140.00
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece and plates, free endpapers lightly browned; original chocolate cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, dove-blue endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The recipient was W H K Wright, F.R. Hist.Soc, of Plymouth; his engraved decorative bookplate is mounted on front paste-down. The small trade ticket of Drayton of Exter is also mounted on front paste-down, and a later personal bookplate on front free endpaper verso. This work is the substance of a paper read at the Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Taunton in 1879. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Bonser 4892.