Retrospections, Social and Archaeological Paperback / softback
by Charles Roach Smith
Edited by John Green Waller
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology series
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Charles Roach Smith (1806–90) had a prosperous career as a druggist.
His shop was in the City of London, then undergoing major excavation and redevelopment, and he began to collect the artefacts being uncovered around him.
With a widening interest in all aspects of the past, Smith began to publish notes on his collection as well as antiquarian observations. (His Illustrations of Roman London is also reissued in this series.) This three-volume work, published 1883–91, reviews his activities as an excavator, collector, and co-founder of the British Archaeological Association.
Pen-portraits of fellow enthusiasts and descriptions of ancient buildings and ruins are interspersed with accounts of infighting in the Association, and biting criticism of local and national authorities who refused to take on responsibility for Britain's archaeological heritage.
Volume 3, published posthumously, includes Smith's accounts of his later life in Kent, and his antiquarian visits to France.
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- Pages:332 pages, 14 Plates, black and white; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2015
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- ISBN:9781108081597
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:332 pages, 14 Plates, black and white; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108081597
