Author: Borlase, William.
Title: ANTIQUITIES, HISTORICAL AND MONUMENTAL, OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL. Consisting of Several Essays on The First Inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, And Remains of the most remote Antiquity In Britain and the British Isles, Exemplified and proved by Monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, With a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British Language.
Description: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols ..., 1769. 2nd Ed., Revised, with several Additions, by the Author. Folio. xvi + 464pp. 25 plates including 1 folding, 10 vignettes, 2 maps including 1 folding. Light age toning, title page creased with closed tears along gutter hinge and with crude taping to verso, hinges taped, e.ps. browned, contemporary calf boards some marking and wear, corners reinforced, rebacked in C20th calf with original gilt lettered label to spine, minor discolouring. ¶ ESTC T139784. ‘Bowyer’s and Nichols’s records show 750 copies printed. Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 4743.’ Upcott 82-6. William Borlase (1695-1772). Antiquary. ODNB First published in 1754 ‘... This work was the first chronological account of the antiquities of the county, and the first book to describe, illustrate, and classify a significant number of them. It was divided into four sections: the early history of Britain with special reference to Cornwall; the rites and practices of the druids; the prehistoric monuments of Cornwall; and the Roman and later antiquities. An index included an English–Cornish vocabulary ...’

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