The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhill in the British Islands. With a Dissertation on the Ogam Character, &c. Illustrated with Fifty Photo-lithographic Plates. Edited by George M. Atkinson. London: George Bell, 1879. First Edition. Pp xvi, 425. Publisher’s  half leather over cloth boards, title stamped in gilt to spine, spine lightly scuffed, light wear to corners, contents pages in good condition.

Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait photograph of the author, fifty plates & with a folded map at rear showing the distribution of Ogham inscribed monuments.

Richard Rolt Brash was an architect and archaeologist, born in Cork. He had a particular interest in Ogham inscriptions, on which he contributed ten papers to the Royal Irish Academy.

His manuscripts on Ogham monuments were edited after his death by George M. Atkinson and published in volume form as ‘The Ogham Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Isles,’ in 1879.