ENGLISH SEAMEN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY : LECTURES DELIVERED AT OXFORD EASTER TERMS 1893-4.
by FROUDE, James Anthony, 1818-1894 :
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1901. The Silver Library edition of Froude's celebrated lectures on Hawkins, Drake and the Armada, originally published in 1895 - and here presented in a handsome prize binding. "Let us be thankful that the Reformation period has been once more illuminated by a man who to original research and immense labour, which are none too common, added a brilliance of style and vividness of narration - a combination which is most rare" (Westminster Gazette, 22nd April 1895). Crown 8vo (183 x 121mm). [vi],(310)pp. Bound in a contemporary peacock-blue half calf, banded and gilt, by Andrews of Durham, with the crest of the Durham Training College for School Masters on the upper cover; red label; all edges red; marbled endpapers; a few very faint signs of age, but an excellent copy. An inscription notes the book's award as a prize to J. R. Moses, second in the college list in 1902 - this John Robert Moses (1880-1917), the son of a local miner and who later became a schoolmaster in Sunderland. For a full account, see my 'Bookhunter on Safari' blog-post for 4th September 2014.
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- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40631
- Title
- ENGLISH SEAMEN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY : LECTURES DELIVERED AT OXFORD EASTER TERMS 1893-4.
- Author
- FROUDE, James Anthony, 1818-1894 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1901.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Naval History, Fine Binding
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