Sales brochure for General Pitt-Rivers' privately printed works. 'NOW FIRST OFFERED FOR SALE, AND AT SPECIAL PRICES : THE PRIVATELY PRINTED WORKS ISSUED BY THE LATE GENERAL PITT-RIVERS'

W.D. Webster

Published by W.D. Webster, 36 Great Russell Street [c1900], London, 1900

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8 pages : 32 cm. Order form loosely inserted.

'NOW FIRST OFFERED FOR SALE, AND AT SPECIAL PRICES.

THE PRIVATELY PRINTED WORKS ISSUED BY THE LATE GENERAL PITT-RIVERS

Government Inspector of Ancient Monuments in Great Britain, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A. Scor., and Member of numerous other English and Foreign Learned Societies.

FORMING

A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS OF UNIQUE INTEREST AND VALUE

TO ALL DEVOTED TO

THE STUDY OF ARCHÆOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, HISTORY, ANCIENT ART WORK IN POTTERY, STONE, BONE AND METAL, NUMISMATICS, &c.;

COVERING THE STONE, BRONZE, LATE CELTIC, EARLY BRITISH, ROMAN, SAXON, AND SOME OF THE SUBSEQUENT PERIODS.

The production of these Volumes, and the cost of the Works of Art and Excavations which they illustrate and record, amounted to upwards of £20,000, for everything was carried out regardless of cost. They are beautifully printed and handsomely bound in cloth gilt.

The late General Pitt-Rivers was frequently asked by correspondents in all parts of the world to offer these works for general sale, but he preferred to adhere to his original plan of issuing them privately.

** THE SMALL REMAINING STOCK, CONSISTING OF ONLY ONE HUNDRED SETS AND SOME SEPARATE VOLUMES, IS NOW OFFERED AT VERY MODERATE PRICES.'.

Seller Inventory # 15jk645

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sales brochure for General Pitt-Rivers' privately printed works. 'NOW FIRST OFFERED FOR SALE, AND AT SPECIAL PRICES : THE PRIVATELY PRINTED WORKS ISSUED BY THE LATE GENERAL PITT-RIVERS'
• Publisher: W.D. Webster, 36 Great Russell Street [c1900], London
• Publication Date: 1900
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
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