ESSAYS AND STUDIES PRESENTED TO WILLIAM RIDGEWAY on his Sixtieth Birthday 6 August 1913
by QUIGGIN, E.C. (ed.)
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. VG/No Jacket (assume none issued). 17 Cms x 24 Cms. f/piece portrait of Ridgeway with tissue-guard. xxv+656, plates ex-pag. & text figs throughout numbered by chapter, top edge gilt, uncut fore-edge (which has resulted in a few minor marginal cedge chips of little consequence); small faint heraldic 'Coll. De Sion. Lond' stamp above t.p. imprint, but no other internal markings of any kind, this stamp actually fairly innocuous, clean and tight with good end-gutters etc; covers, with gilt heraldic motif centre front, clean and virtually unworn bar very small chip bottom spine and another, tinier, to top, faint round lib.label ghost lower spine. Contributors include numerous eminent figures from the worlds of archaeology, anthropology, classics and history including Gomme, Flinders Petrie, Tillyard, M.R.James, J.G.Frazer, Boyd Dawkins, Seligmann, Rivers, Haddon, Elliot Smith and C.S.Myers. Many of these attended the dinner on 31st July 1913, the seating plan of which is given on p.648 (80 attending in all, no women though!). A remarkable festchrift with papers on everything from Cicero to black figure vases and German river names to Torres Straits outrigger canoes. Uncommon. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books (GB)
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- 009458
- Title
- ESSAYS AND STUDIES PRESENTED TO WILLIAM RIDGEWAY on his Sixtieth Birthday 6 August 1913
- Author
- QUIGGIN, E.C. (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Black Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (assume none issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 17 Cms x 24 Cms
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- archaeology anthropology classics ancient Greece medieval history mythology ancient Egypt
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