What Mean These Stones? C. MacLagan: Hardback: 1894: Celtic & Pictish History

By Christian MacLagan.

Published by David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1894. First edition. Hardback cover, 47 pages. Black & white illustrations.

CONDITION
Overall fair condition considering age - see photos. Some wear/marks to hardcover. Foxing to edges and end papers. Name in pencil to front free end paper. Inscription (from author?) in ink to second free end paper. Otherwise no names or writing amongst text.

Christian Maclagan (1811– 10 May 1901) was a Scottish antiquarian and early archaeologist. She is known for her collection of rubbings of Celtic crosses and Pictish stones from across Scotland, and was a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation. Although she lost the use of her right hand due to a medical condition she nevertheless produced numerous drawings, sketches and paintings with her left hand. She took action to help those affected by poverty in Stirling. She refused to sit for portraits although one obituary described her as tall. She was a suffragist. She wrote an autobiography but the script remains lost. She was nominated to be one of Scotland's Heroines honoured at the National Wallace Monument's Hall of Heroes. She died in Ravenscroft, Stirling.