ORIGINES CELTICAE, A FRAGMENT, AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. London: Macmillan 1883

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1st ed, two volumes, publ s green ribbed cloth, XXVIII+409+538pp plus errata, portrait frontis, one color plate, and eight folding color maps, one hinge cracked and strained, spine edges a bit rubbed, one cover a bit scuffed else a vg-f set with the engraved bookplates of Marlborough College (no other library markings). Guest was vice chancellor of Cambridge University and a renown antiquary. Wil-liam Stubbs, another front rank historian edited this selection for publication after Guest s death in 1880. Volume one with chapters on the Kimmerioi and the Cimbri; the Iberes and Aquitani; early languages; early Bible chronology; and many papers on the language, ethnology and folk-lore of Near Eastern peoples, volume two concerns ancient British history, the Picts and others up to the time of the Roman invasion. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1731463062015

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