Author: Hartshorne, Rev. Charles Henry.
Title: SALOPIA ANTIQUA, Or an Enquiry from Personal Survey into the ‘Druidical,’ Military, and Other Early Remains in Shropshire and the North Welsh Borders; With Observations upon the Names of Places, and a Glossary of Words Used in the County of Salop.
Description: London: John W. Parker, 1841. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xxii + 640pp. Colour and gilt illus. title page, 7 plates including 2 sepia lithos., dec. initial letters, sm. decorations, ills. Hinges cracked and shaken, some very light marginal age toning, title page lightly browned and spotted, some sporadic spotting mainly to plates and adjacent leaves, gilt lettered blind embossed green cloth with dec. gilt bands to spine, minor rubbing, corners bumped, spine lightly faded and rubbed with head and tail sl. bumped. ¶ Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802–1865). ‘... Salopia antiqua, a genuinely original archaeological synopsis which may still be consulted with profit, was founded on an extensive and vigorous exploration of his native county: in 1837 he wrote (to [Albert] Way) describing long tramps, of 30–50 miles daily, over the Shropshire hills. The book was in some respects pioneering, for example in its inclusion of material on dialect and place names which were anticipations of later, more systematic work by Georgina F. Jackson and others ...’ ODNB.

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