Book Description

First Edition. 8vo, edges untrimmed. Extensive index. Publisher's 24 p. catalogue at end.
Dealer Notes
“Hodder Westropp wrote what is probably the first Handbook of Archaeology ever produced, added to Petrie's work on Irish Round Towers, and defined the term Mesolithic. Yet he is virtually unknown and is given only a brief mention in modern scholarship (Daniel, 1967, 260; Wilkins, 1959, 130–1).”--P.T. Nicholson (1983)
Author Westropp, Hodder Michael (1820-1884), Irish archaeologist
Date 1885
Binding Publisher's Japan paper boards
Publisher London : G. Redway
Condition Internally very good, spine darkened, two ancient small stains on back cover
Pages pp. [iv], 68; 24

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