Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office (Volume 1)
by MS, Giuseppi
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- Hardcover
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- VG++/F/VG
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HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND FIRST," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1963.* Publisher: HMSO* Binding and cover condition: Bright red cloth, gilt title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Grey paper dust wrapper with red title and details to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of 32s 6d. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Small tear at head. Spine and edges lightly aged. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, impressed owners address to fep. No marks to text. Minimal paper colouration, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 159 pp. text. li pp. list of abbreviations. Glossary & index at rear.* Description: This comprehensive guide to an uniquely important source of historical information takes account of all the documentary material which has reached the public record office from the transmitting courts and departments by the end of August 1960. Like its predecessor, M.S.Giuseppi?s ?Guide To The Manuscripts Preserved In The Public Record Office?, which it supersedes, it is in two volumes of which this is the first devoted to the ?records of the courts.? This include all the national archives of the period beginning with Domesday book in 1086 and ending with the death of Henry VII in 1509.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. thus with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Reduced by some dust jacket age and wear to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5511
- Title
- Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office (Volume 1)
- Author
- MS, Giuseppi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/F/VG
- Quantity Available
- 51
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- Her Majesty's Stationary Office
- Place of Publication
- London UK 199
- Date Published
- 1963-01-01
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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