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The English World: History, Character, and People Texts
by Blake, Robert - Editor
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0810908654
- ISBN 13
- 9780810908659
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrahms, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Folio Hardcover Book in FINE Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. 268 pages. 9"w x 12.5" tall. Over 300 reproductions-85 in full color- with pictures and text together representing every level of English life. Beautiful, handsome binding of burgundy brushed cloth with sharp, bright, bold, gilt titles on spine and gilt rose debossed on front. Very clean and completely unmarked, tight sewn binding, square, with sharp corners--just as new. Endpapers with Rose wallpaper (1877) by William Morris. Half-title page a map of England and Wales from The British Monarchy (1743) by George Bickham. Clean and bright red jacket with illustration is unmarked, no edgewear; it is rubbed. A "masterly, historical, cultural, and psychological study" that is highly readable and beautifully illustrated, an affectionate but not uncritical account of England and her people. Brilliant essays enlivened by drawings, photographs, posters, maps. A treasure of a Book. Harry N. Abrahms, NY 1982. Priority and International Shipping require extra postage.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017827
- Title
- The English World: History, Character, and People Texts
- Author
- Blake, Robert - Editor
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0810908654
- ISBN 13
- 9780810908659
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrahms
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
- Keywords
- ENGLAND; ENGLAND-CIVILIZATION; NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS-ENGLISH; MEDIEVAL HISTORY; WALES; SCOTLAND; IRELAND; COLONIES; MONARCHY; ARISTOCRACY;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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