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Buy this book on-line DELANEY, FRANK: : THE CELTS. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1986. ISBN 0340349328.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[There is also a separate BBC published edn with ISBN 0593203013, accompanying the BBC2 TV series (of 6 fifty-five minutes documentaries with a short introductory feature).The US edn followed a year later,1987.] NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat, handwritten,black felt-tip pen ink inscrptn: 'With best wishes Frank Delaney' to title page, just below his printed name and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photograph (gilt Horse Mask,1st Century A.D., Stanwick Yorkshire) to front panel with gilt+ white lettering,author's portrait colour photograph to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges with minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting,but fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-240pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table and picture+text acknowledgements,author's acknowledgements,contents list/table,author's introduction,10 chapters,profuse b/w historical and contemporary facsimile illustration reproductions, similar b/w+colour photographs all interspersed throughout the text and the book.The colour plates/photographs particularly, are in 3 separate blocks of 16pp apiece,within the text; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,and 3 b/w regional maps (Celtic tribes+locations in early Europe,Celtic Ireland and 1st Century BC: Celtic Britain and Northern Gaul).
They have been called 'one of the great barbarian peoples of the world'.An impression of the Celts persists which portrays them as wild, excitable,warlike,ferocious and uncivilised - in their latter manifestations much given to drink, song and entertainment.
In truth,despite their numerical smallness,they made a major and exciting contribution to western civilisation,as Frank Delaney shows in his new book,a companion to his BBC2 television series.
'The Celts' is a personal quest in which Delaney discovers the truth about his fore-fathers.Beginning in the plains of Hungary, through Austria,Switzerland,southern Germany and France into Scotland, Wales and the west of Ireland,he traces the origins,growth,flowering and eventual decline of a people whose very name conjures romance and adventure.
In this first major popular book on the subject,Delaney brushes away the cliches and feyness of the Celts and describes a people once so significant and powerful that they sacked Rome,penetrated the sacred heart of Greece by pillaging Delphi and attracted the name 'the father of Europe'.
With lavish colour and b/w illustrations, 'The Celts' is far more than the book of the television series,extending beyond the six BBC2 programmes.With the enthusiasm that hallmarks his two previous books,'James Joyce's Odyssey' and 'Betjeman Country',Frank Delaney once again informs as he entertains.
An outstanding and great overview of Celtic history and culture,by this great Irish writer.
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