1914 Wookey Hole its Caves and Cave Dwellers

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this uncommon work.

In the original unclipped dust wrapper.  

Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty-five plates, three of which are hand-coloured plans and maps.

List of subscribers present to the front. 

Collated, complete.

A detailed study on the Wookey Hole Caves, following the history of the Caves, as well as the excavations undertaken by Herbert E. Balch.

Wookey Hole Caves have been used by humans for around 45,000 years, with Palaeolithic tools and fossilised animals found in them, and evidence of occupation of the caves from the Stone and Iron Age and into Roman Britain.

By Herbert Balch. Balch was an important archaeologist who explored the caves of Mendip Hills, and pioneered many techniques for modern caving. He led excavations at Wooley from 1904 to 1914. In 1912 he found a 1000 year old skeleton in the caves, which is rumoured to be the legendary Witch of Wookey Hole.

With an introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins. Illustrated by John Hassall and J. H. Savory.