Prehistoric England
by Clarke, Grahame
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
£16.19£8.09
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About This Item
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1941. The "British Heritage Series". Illustrated by drawings, diagrams and photographs. Frontispiece... a full color plate titled "Enamelled Bronz Shield, Thames at Battersea". Preface by Grahame Clarke, F.S.A. The nine chapters offered are: (i) Introductory... (ii) The Food Quest... (iii) Dwelling... (iv) Handicrafts... (v) Mining and Trade... (vi) Communications... (vii) Hills - Forts... (viii) Buriel... (ix) Sacred Sites. Together these significant headings give us as complete a picture as it is at present to piece together of how prehistoric man in England lived and moved and had his being. The 130 and more pictures are a feature of the book. Several of the reproductions are from Stukeley's eighteenth-century engravings. There are 110 plates on heavier semi-gloss stock. A select bibliography and index provided. Cloth boards. Map endpapers. Endpapers show offsetting. Full picturial wrap-around price-intact dust jacket by Brian Cook. A most serviceable copy.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B717
- Title
- Prehistoric England
- Author
- Clarke, Grahame
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- B.T. Batsford Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- A Batsford Book England-History Wales-History British Heritage Series
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- History;
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