A Great Free City. The Book of Silchester. The Dramatic Complemental History of the Remarkable Atrebatian Stronghold Which Became The Imperial Municipality CALLEVA ATREBATUM. The Third free City of the Romano-Britannic Province More Commonly Known as Silchester. "Authors OWN copy SIGNED and annotated throughout both volumes. UNIQUE set".

James Thomson.

Verlag: Simkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London., 1924

Beschreibung

2 volumes complete. This copy was the AUTHORS OWN copy FULLY annotated by him in his own hand. With large margins and one of only 175 (not 350) this being number 8 and signed in full and dated 1st december 1924. ALSO there is a 7 line message to the recipient detailing his thoroughness and attention to details and initialed "J 1931". We have another signature of J.V.L. Godefroy on endpaper dated 1946. he was an Oxford academic writer of several music books and a member of the Richard Strauss Society in the 1930's-40's. *Contents: Prelims + 703 pages in both volumes + 49 page general appendix at end of volume two and appendix in volume one also as part of the body of the work and set before the end of that volume. And 22 pages for press cuttings and memorandum notes (all clear) at the very end, which i doubt was done in any other copies. There are also 40 full page plates both photographic and drawn + 61 drawings and diagrams in the body of the work. *****THERE ARE OVER 130 PAGES***** with brief and long marginal and textual corrections and revised opinions or word changes by the author and all in ink in his OWN hand. ALL The copies listed as I type this seem to be limited to 350 copies NOT 175. The fact the date is December 1924 and the 350 limitation copies are also dated 1924 would indicate 2 editions? But that wouldn't make sense and at least one other copy for sale didn't or wouldn't have a limitation number under 350 of 175? *Bound in two-tone tan and dark cream boards, some wear at edges corners and spine extremes. Contents are very good and clean with the occasional very light age spotting in the odd place. Large full quarto's. Good+ to VERY GOOD. **The work is a detailed study in the legend and court of Arthur in Romano-British England and that romance of verbal and lost legend may have merit. If so ahead of its time surely? With chapter and appendices notes on the legend the man and the place. History HAS moved on since this was published and the accumulating evidence & realisation of a post-Roman British hero was real is revised almost daily. These details may be just ahead of their time? Another important aspect is that the photographs are also of the remains of Silchester as it appeared in the 1920's. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4799

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Great Free City. The Book of Silchester. ...

Verlag: Simkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1924

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Owners own copy

Auflage: Limited Edition