Notes on a Vitrified Fort at "An-Cnap," Sannox, Arran, and Vitrified Stones at Mid Sannox, Arran, and at Pennymore, Furnace, Loch Fyne. [Offprint from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. lxii, 1927-28]

Victor A. Noël PATON

Verlag: [Edinburgh]: [Society of Antiquaries of Scotland], 1928

Beschreibung

Wrappers, showing signs of wear. Author's presentation copy to Robert Cross, inscribed "To Robert Cross from V.A.N.P." (subscribed by the recipient "VITRIFIED FORTS") and with, inserted, an autograph letter signed, 29 July 1928. "My dear Bobbie," writes the author, "I am sure you will think yourself entitled, as indeed you are, to a copy of my paper - and presumably my last - to the Society of Antiquaries (Scot) . . ." Robert Cross (1862-1938), chemical manufacturer, was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1886, and served on its Council, 1924-27. Victor Albert Noël Paton (1862-1931) was a son of Sir Noël Paton, Queen Victoria s Limner in Scotland; he was a Writer to the Signet, admitted 1887, a sometime President of the Speculative Society, and author too, for the Scottish History Society, of "Masterton Papers 1660-1719" - in 1893, the year his younger sister Caroline was married to Robert Cross. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers S100317

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Titel: Notes on a Vitrified Fort at "An-Cnap," ...

Verlag: [Edinburgh]: [Society of Antiquaries of Scotland]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1928

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)