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Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
by Baring-Gould, S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London & New York: John Lane. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. American Edition. Hardcover. London & New York: John Lane, 1908. xv,813pp, Index, plus 2pp ads. Original green cloth, gilt letters, very good condition, light wear to edges of boards, interior clean; no dj (if issued). With 55 full-page illustrations, from historical sources. The Devonshire Characters are not those most famous and remarkable in history; instead with those that "lie on a lower plane" (Preface). Some of those listed on the Contents pages: Hugh Stafford, Maria Foote, Manly Peek, James Wyatt, Sir William Hankford, Lady Howard, The Bidlakes, of Bidlake, Pirates of Lundy, Joanna Southcott, many more.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 813 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13719
- Title
- Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
- Author
- Baring-Gould, S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- American Edition
- Publisher
- John Lane
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- England, English History
Terms of Sale
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Dale A. Sorenson
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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