THE ELIZABETHAN RENAISSANCE : THE LIFE OF THE SOCIETY.
by ROWSE, A.L. (Alfred Leslie), 1903-1997 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Macmillan London, (1971). First edition. An appealing presentation copy, inscribed "For Arthur with constant / devotion and comradeship / in the art / of history and letters / from A. L." - the recipient being fellow historian Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). A pioneering study of the social life of Elizabethan England, from court to countryside, with chapters on class, food and sanitation, sex, parish and sport, custom, witchcraft and astrology, etc. The early part of the book in particular has been much marked and underlined by Bryant, with occasional disagreement and some minor annotation. Demy 8vo (23cm). x,(294)pp. Plates. Portraits. Original blue cloth gilt; top edge blue; a little marked and bruised; internally a considerable amount of staining, mainly to page-edges - Sir Arthur was evidently a messy reader; a well-thumbed copy in a battered and worn dust-jacket - but unique and important in tying together two of the most distinguished English historians of the twentieth century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43474
- Title
- THE ELIZABETHAN RENAISSANCE : THE LIFE OF THE SOCIETY.
- Author
- ROWSE, A.L. (Alfred Leslie), 1903-1997 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan London, (1971).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English History, Elizabethan History
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