Author: RAUTHMEL (Richard):
Title: Antiquitates Bremetonacenses; Antiquitates Bremetonacenses, or, The Roman antiquities of Overborough.
Description: Kirkby Lonsdale: Printed by and For Arthur Foster. 1824. Tall 8vo, 208 x 126 mms., pp. [ii], 4, vi [sic, for iv], 138, including list of subscribers, Engraved frontispiece of Burrow Hall, engraved map between pages 18 and 19, engraved plan of Roman garrison between pages 68 and 69, three engraved plates at end of text between pages 118 and [119], contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine (a little rubbed), some other wear to extremities of binding, lacks label, but a good to very good copy. The work was first published, in a quarto format, in London by Henry Woodfall in 1746, with a dedication signed Richard Rauthmell. This is not just a straightforward reprint but an expanded second edition made by the publisher, Arthur Foster. The work contains an early mention of the Easington Fell Ring, at Newton, Lancashire.

Keywords: topography antiquities prose


See more books from our catalog: Topography