A Bibliography of British Municipal History including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation
by Gross, C
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- Hardcover
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- An ex-library copy with a label on the front pastedown endpaper and a note on the front free endpaper, otherwise Good
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About This Item
Longmans, Green and Co., New York, first edition, 1897. Cloth, blindstamped cover device, 8vo,. xxxiv, 461 pp. 3,092 entries. From the preface : "This Bibliography comprises books, pamphlets, magazine articles, and papers of learned societies, relating wholly or in part to British municipal history; in other words, to the governmental or constitutional history of the boroughs of Great Britain, including gilds and parliamentary representation. Town histories which do not deal with any of these topics, purely topographical works, and parish histories are omitted. The Introduction gives a brief survey of the principal categories of sources (the public and local records and the town chronicles) and a critical account of the modern literature. Part I contains the titles of the general authorities, while Part II is devoted to works concerning particular towns. An ex-library copy with a label on the front pastedown endpaper and a note on the front free endpaper, otherwise Good.
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- Wykeham Books
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- BIBLIO-17313
- Title
- A Bibliography of British Municipal History including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation
- Author
- Gross, C
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, blindstamped cover device, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - An ex-library copy with a label on the front pastedown endpaper and a note on the front free endpaper, otherwise Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co., New York, first edition, 1897
- Date Published
- 1897
- Pages
- xxxiv, 461 pp
- Keywords
- 16th sixteenth 17th seventeenth 18th eighteenth 19th nineteenth century Great Britain British history english governmental constitutional history towns municipal history gilds parliamentary representation
- Bookseller catalogs
- History : British (Bibliographies);
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