Buy this book on-line STEVENS,FRANK: : STONEHENGE TODAY & YESTERDAYLONDON.SAMPSON LOW,MARSTON & CO.,LTD.,1916.
UK,slim 12mo wraps,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn.Green paper covers with black ink
printed letters to upper cover and spine/
backstrip with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges apart from inevitable dog-ear creases to corners.
Lightly sunned upper cover edges and to spine/backstrip which is slightly creased and minimally rubbed.Rear cover slightly marked.Top+fore-edges lightly aged and lightly foxed - as usual/normal.Contents generally clean apart from some slight foxing to prelims to front and some rear end pages.A sound,solid copy of an unusual item.12mo,2-96pp includes half-title page,recto of which is illustrated with a b/w line drawing of Stonehenge and a schematic plan,title-page,foreword by H.P. Blackmore,profuse b/w line illus/
drawings+plans by Heywood Sumner,F.S.A
throughout the text.
The interest that has always attached itself to Stonehenge has,without doubt, been in a great measure due to the mystery
as to the origin of this unique monument of bygone time.But the careful investigations carried out by the modern school of archeologists (then 1916),as instanced in the work of General Pitt Rivers,Mr Gowland,and others,every excavation being carried out with great care and scientific accuracy,have had good results;little by little the history of Stonehenge has been unravelled;a fact that Mr Stevens has clearly demonstrated in the present volume.We now know how, when, and who, built this remarkable temple.One point, however, still remains a mystery (again then 1916), viz. whence the so-called foreign stones were obtained? Clearly, as geology shows, from no spot in Wiltshire.Amongst the many rude
stone circles scattered over Great Britain, Stonehenge is unique, in the fact
of having its sarsen stones carefully though roughly worked;and also in the introduction of the horseshoe within the circles, in the design or plan of the building.The author was the then Curator of the Salisbury Museum.
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