An/Year: 1858
Auteur/Author: French Gilbert James
Editeur/Editor/: Simms Charles
Langue/Language: United Kingdom
Format: Hardcover
Dimension: 22 x 14 cm
Condition: Used - Good

An attempt to explain the origin and meaning of the early interlaced ornamentation found on the ancient sculptured stones of Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. By Gilbert J. French, of Bolton. Manchester 1858. First edition.

• Condition : good, slight stains to boards, corners slightly dulled, scattered light foxing. Overall a very good copy.
  Illustrations : 8 plates out of text.
  Binding : full cloth.
  Volume : 1 volume.
  Format : in-8.
  Pages : 24 pp.
  Publisher : Manchester, Charles Simms.
  Date : 1858.

  
  Rare first edition. "Printed for representation only".

  Gilbert James French (1804 -1866) was born in Edinburgh, where his father is said to have been a manufacturer. He was apprenticed to a clothier and emigrated first to Sheffield and then to Bolton, Lancashire, where he settled and developed the manufacture of textiles worn by clergymen and used at church services. He wrote a number of works of literary and antiquarian interest, including a life of Samuel Crompton. He was a member of the Society of Antiquaries, President of the Mechanics Institution in Bolton and encouraged the establishment of the Bolton Free Library.