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Apologia Diffidentis.
by Leith, W. Compton. [Dalton, Ormonde Maddock], 1866-1945
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London : John Lane, The Bodley Head ; New York : John Lane Company ; [Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears], 1917., 1917. Very Good. 3rd ed. ; 186 pp. ; 20 cm. ; OCLC: 2994338 ; name on front ep ; ½ vellum with marbled boards ; top edges gilt ; untrimmed ; Dalton was "Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum, 1921-1928. Dalton was the son of a solicitor, Thomas Masters Dalton, and Emily Mansford. He attended Harrow School winning a scholarship to New College, Oxford, graduating in the "classical moderations" (Classical studies) in 1886 and in literae humaniores in 1888. Dalton made a grand tour after school, France, Germany, Austria, studying under Josef Strzygowski and India, and teaching for a year at the Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, in 1884. The following year Dalton joined British Museum in the department of British and medieval antiquities ...Dalton's initial focus in ethnology migrated to archaeology and he set about writing catalogs on the collections...During World War I, Dalton worked for the Admiralty, in the map making division, until he was struck by and car and seriously injured.Dalton moved to a cottage in the Quantocks in 1940. He died at home, unmarried, in Holford, Somerset, in 1945. His Quantocks land was donated to the National Trust for its unspoiled beauty, the rest New College to found a research scholarship. "--Dictionary of art historians ; "...Often at such times I would hear a rushing in the highest branches, and turning very silently, see the outposts of a troop of monkeys peering down through the gleaming foliage. Then, if I moved neither head nor limb, others would come, and yet others, leaping from branch to branch and plunging down from higher to lower levels like divers cleaving a deep green sea; until at last some slightest involuntary movement of mine would put the whole host to flight, and greybeards, young warriors, camp followers and mothers with their children on their backs would go crashing from tree to tree, screaming and gibbering like the shades of Homer's sapless dead. " ; foxed ; a spot or two on spine ; slight wear ; VG
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- Apologia Diffidentis.
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- Leith, W. Compton. [Dalton, Ormonde Maddock], 1866-1945
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- Hardcover
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- London : John Lane, The Bodley Head ; New York : John Lane Company ; [Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears]
- Date Published
- 1917
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