Vercingétorix

1960 · ref. C105848 — 1960. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. 6 notebookspersonal organisers rung bound format five measure 16.5 x 11cms and one 18.5 x 11.5cms. In all over 1230 pages some blank particularly in the last two notebooks. Original black leatherette the larger one in burgundy leatherette. The title in the first notebook which covers A-G is as follows: 'Brogan's Epitaphs. Funerary Inscriptions in the English Tongue. An Anthology collected selected and arranged by Hugh Brogan M.A. Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge; with a preceding Essay on English Style and Numerous Monumental Illustrations'. Brogan has noted his address at St John's College Cambridge which he has crossed out and replaced with his address at the Department of History University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester. The other notebooks provide A-L Z H-N O-Z some notes the last two are not sequential and have many blank pages. The entries which are all located in England are arranged alphabetically by place followed by in most cases the church where the epitaph or inscription is located. Additional material such as postcards with handwritten messages photographs photocopies and newspaper cuttings are loosely inserted or pastedown. Brogan's handwriting sometimes replicates the actual inscription and at other times he writes in capitals he also adds sketches and diagrams of some of the memorials. Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan 1936-2019 was a British historian and biographer who became a fellow of St John's College Cambridge and later Professor of History at the University of Essex. He wrote a major work on the history of the USA as well as works on Kennedy Arthur Ransome and Alexis de Toqueville. He stated that his sole recreational interest was collecting English epitaphs and wished his own to be 'Brexit wrecks it'. One of the notebooks worn at head of spine otherwise very good. Very good. hardcover