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Look Back on England
by Burke, John Frederick;Pleeth, Ian
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0856130656
- ISBN 13
- 9780856130656
- Seller
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About This Item
London, England: Orbis Publishing, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Ian Pleeth. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Very clean and unmarked green cloth, bright and bold gilt title on spine. A touch of rubbing to bottom edges. Tight and solid. Dark green endpapers. Photographs by Ian Pleeth. Clean and unmarked jacket with slight edgewear on top edge, scuff on the back side, with illustration of Lorton Vale, a Lake District fell near Loweswater. Look Back on England takes the present environment as its starting point, on a journey into history.The past is seen from the perspective of the present and shows that England's past lives visibly. Photographs by Ian Pleeth of Wessex and the South-East, of East Anglia , Northumbria and Cumbria, of hearthstones and homesteads--and more. Take this fascinating journey through England. 224 pages with index. 10 x 7.75 inches. London, Orbis Pub., 1980.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016042
- Title
- Look Back on England
- Author
- Burke, John Frederick;Pleeth, Ian
- Illustrator
- Ian Pleeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0856130656
- ISBN 13
- 9780856130656
- Publisher
- Orbis Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 4to - over 9?" - 12" t
- Keywords
- HISTORY, ENGLAND; WESSEX; EAST ANGLIA; NORTHUMBRIA; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION-ENGLAND; CUMBRIA; HOME COUNTIES;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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