Inscribed
The Naga Tribes of Manipur.
London: Macmillan & Company, 1911.
Price: $450.00
About the item
First edition. Color frontispiece, folding map, plates from photographs. xiii, 212 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Original blue cloth, upper board with gilt vignette of Naga warrior. Some minor rubbing, occasional foxing, else near fine.
Item #55031
Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front pastedown: “To Prof Arthur Keith with the sincere compliments of the author, T.C. Hodson, Dec 1910, O that he’ll away and write a book / O that he’ll away and write another book”
Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955) was a British anatomist and physical anthropologist who specialized in the study of human evolution. His book Human Embryology and Morphology (1902) went into many editions during his lifetime. Keith heeded Hodson’s call: in 1915 he published The Antiquity of Man, a review of the fossil record; and The Engines of the Human Body (1919), a work for a popular audience; in the 1920s he was called for the preservation of Darwin's home at Downe in Kent.
