The Celtic druids; or, An attempt to shew, that the druids were the priests of oriental colonies who emigrated from India, and were the introducers of the first or Cadmean system of letters, and the builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of other cyclopean works, in Asia and Europe. By Godfrey Higgins, ...
Godfrey Higgins (1773-1833)
Category
Books
Date
1829
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221652
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],xiv,[2],xcvi,324p., [48] leaves of plates (4 fold.) : ill. ; 4to. Text unopened. Bookseller's pencil ms. note on pastedown. Provenance: presentation copy: engraved title inscribed "The author requests his old friend of almost half a century Sir F.L. Wood, Bart to permit this book to haver the honor of a place in his new library ... [with Greek]". Loose insert: autograph letter signed from the author to Sir Francis Lindley Wood, 2nd Bt. (1771-1846), wishing to correct an error in the inscription; addressed "Sir F.L. Wood Bart | Hemsworth"; from Godfrey Higgins [of] Skellow Grange; folded, with red wax seal. Binding: nineteenth-century quarter green cloth, with grey paper boards, gold lettered direct on spine. (Unsuitable tape repair on upper edge.)
Makers and roles
Godfrey Higgins (1773-1833), author