The Runic Roods of Ruthwell and Bewcastle : With a Short History of the Cross and Crucifix in Scotland

4to, xii + pp178 complete with 30 b/w plates, including frontis. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers blue cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and front board in very good condition with a little shelf wear to tail of spine, a little bumping to bottom tip of front board and a few small marks to back board. Inside a little toning to end-papers and a little yellowing to all pages , otherwise in very good clean condition. 'The Ruthwell Cross was broken after the Reformation with the fragments being reconstructed at the beginning of the 19th century when it was returned to the church. An account is given of the attempts to decipher the inscriptions on the Bewcastle obelisk or cross with likely dates of both monuments'. A very nice copy.