Bosworth Field: From Medieval to Tudor England
by Rowse, A. L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light blue cloth, gilt & purple titles & decorations, xiii, 317 pp, genealogical chart, 10 ff b & w plates including 2 maps, 1 map in text, index. Extremities rubbed, front endpapers browned by clipping laid in (a Barbara Flanagan column about Shakespearean actress Dame Sybil Thorndike). DJ moderately rubbed & soiled, 1 cm tear to bottom edge of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Color folding map of Shakespeare's Engand from the May, 1964, National Geographic is laid in. Historical interpretation of the reigns of English kings from Richard II through Henry VII, focused on the factors that led to the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth field by Henry IV in 1485. As the DJ puts it, "Bosworth Field was a dramatic turning point in history, one that brought England from the Medieval into the Tudor Age. A. L. Rowse tells its story as it has rarely been told before, not only as a major historical event, but following up its rich and fascinating expression in Tudor literature, particularly Shakespeare." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 24 X 16 cm.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HIEN00010
- Title
- Bosworth Field: From Medieval to Tudor England
- Author
- Rowse, A. L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- History - England York Lancaster Tudor Kings
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - England;
- Size
- 24 X 16 cm
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