KEMBLE, John Mitchell.

Horae Ferales; or, studies in the archaeology of the northern nations. By the late John M. Kemble ... edited by R.G. Latham ... and A.W. Franks.

London, 1863. Folio, pp. xii, 251, with 34 litho plates (11 printed in colours); a very good copy in the original publisher's brown blocked cloth, head and foot of spine skillfully repaired. First edition, published posthumously and largely edited by Augustus Wollaston Franks who was also responsible for the compilation, discussion and description of the plates. 'In relation to archaeological thought Frank's most perceptive and influential work occurs in his edition of Kemble's Horae Ferales, in which Celtic art is for the first time properly defined' (D.M Wilson). John Kemple (1807-1857) was an Anglo-Saxon scholar who had studied under Jacob Grimm in Göttingen. By 1854 he turned his attention to pre-historic archaeology, and made excavations in the principality of Lüneburg. While in Germany he had also made a vast number of drawings of pre-historic antiquities in the museums of Berlin, Munich and Schwerin. Later the committee of the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester employed him to collect and arrange Celtic and Roman antiquities for the ecxhibition. M. Caygill & J. Cherry (ed.), A.W. Franks, 19th century collecting and the British Museum, London 1997.

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