BRASH, Richard Rolt. The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Islands. With a dissertation on the Ogam character.

Edited by George M. Atkinson. Illustrated with fifty photo-lithographic plates and a folding map. London: George Bell, 1879. Quarto. pp. xvi, 425, [50] leaves of plates. Modern quarter purple morocco on marbled boards, title and author in gilt on double black morocco labels on spine. Ex-lib. A very handsome copy. Very scarce.

Mr. Brash in his prospectus for this work states: There is no country in Europe which presents so rich a field for the investigation of the antiquity as Ireland ... We have abundant evidence that successive tribes, driven towards the Atlantic by more recent migrations from the East, found a refuge in this remote isle, in attestation of which we find, that every district teems with the military, religious, and sepulchral monuments of pre-historic peoples, most of which are the subjects of weird traditions still preserved by the peasantry, being even yet regarded with that jealous veneration inherent in the Celtic race. Foremost in interest amongst these megalithic remains stand her Ogam inscribed pillar-stones, bearing the sepulchral legends of a race of her early colonists in such archaic characters as at once to place them amongst the most ancient written records known.

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