The Handbook to the Roman Wall: A Guide to Tourists Traversing the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus

x, 222pp; some in-text black and white illustrations, colour map in rear. Brown cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends with cloth wearing. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan. Endpapers foxing and tanning; pages starting to age. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. John Collingwood Bruce (1805-1892) was an ordained  nonconformist minister and schoolteacher but better known as an historian of Tyneside with a special interest in the Roman Wall (Hadrian's Wall).  He developed a numbering system for the structures of the Wall which became the standard means of reference.