The Sources and Literature of English History from the Earliest Times to about 1485
by Gross, C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- An ex-library copy with labels on front pastedown endpaper and spine, stamps on prelims and upper and lower edges, otherwise a G
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Augustus M Kelley, New York, 1970 reprint of 1915 second edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xxiii, 820 pp. Approximately 4,000 entries. Collison, in "Bibliographies, Subject and National” calls this work "..a model of its kind. More than 3,000 items, books, periodical articles, and transactions of learned societies are minutely classified under the following main headings: (a) General authorities, (b) origins, (c) Anglo-Saxon period, (d) period between 1066 and 1485. There are short but good critical annotations, and a detailed index. There are also four appendixes: reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records; the Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Rolls Series; and chronological tables of the principal sources. An ex-library copy with labels on front pastedown endpaper and spine, stamps on prelims and upper and lower edges, otherwise a Good copy.
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- Seller
- Wykeham Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-01265
- Title
- The Sources and Literature of English History from the Earliest Times to about 1485
- Author
- Gross, C
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - An ex-library copy with labels on front pastedown endpaper and spine, stamps on prelims and upper and lower edges, otherwise a G
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Augustus M Kelley, New York, 1970 reprint of 1915 second edition
- Date Published
- 1970 reprint of 1915 second edi
- Pages
- xxiii, 820 pp
- Keywords
- 12th twelfth 13th thirteenth 14th fourteenth 15th fifteenth century Great Britain British english history medieval norman anglo-saxon roman prehistoric dark ages
- Bookseller catalogs
- History (Bibliographies);
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Wykeham Books
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LONDON, Aberdeen
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