Report On Excavations Made On The Site Of The Roman Castrum At Lymne, In Kent, In 1850……
Original printed paper wrappers, spine repaired. A little worn at extremities and somewhat timestained but a very good copy. The front bears the neatly inked name of 'Stephen Steele Esq`re' and the signature of 'C[harles] Roach Smith', so possibly a gift from the author. Another hand has inscribed H. Lemmon, and a further hand at the bottom has written 'Supplement to The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lymne.'
£250.00
Details
RARE REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS AT LYMPNE.
Publisher
Printed for the Subscribers to the Excavations, London,,
Date
1852
Synopsis
With notes on the original plan of the castrum, and on the ancient state of romney marshes...
Item Description
4to. viii + 45 pp. + [5] list of subscribers + etched folding frontis + 10 etched plates, by W.H. Brooke, H.W. Rolfe, R. Windle and others, one of which is hand-coloured, and numerous wood-engraved plans and illustrations to the text.
Notes
This report was produced for the Subscribers to the Lymne excavation and more than two years after Smith's work The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver and Lymne. It is more fully illustrated, with specially produced plates, and more descriptive of the excavations than the section on Lympne in that work. The report has additional notes by James Elliott Jnr., a principal subscriber to the dig, who had made previous excavations in the area. The subscribers to the Lymne dig appear in the order in which they subscribed and with the amount of their subscription. Interestingly, neither of the names on the cover appears in the list of subscribers in the 'Report' or that in the 'Antiquities'. The list of Lymne subscribers amounts to 109 names so perhaps 120 copies were produced, of which this is a rare survivor.
[Stock No. 19647]
