Search Results: History: England from The Owl at the Bridge

Bookseller catalogue listing 80 items by and about Daniel Defoe and his times. Stapled in pictorial wraps; Good with ink marks on cover. Stock#ofc0273.

Bookseller catalogue with 161 listings, illus.; stapled in pictorial paper covers; Good with a few librarian scribbles. Stock#ofc0261.

"... through the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries with a particular emphasis on the period of the American War of Independence."As so much of that war was against acts of Parliament, having the texts is helpful. Fifty years ago I was able to buy volumes filled with all the acts of a year for less than a single pertinent one disbound.Bookseller catalogue, softcover, [19] pages, 172 entries, 21 cm. Near fine, with library date stamp on front cover. Stock#48192.

New York, Vintage Books [1960, c1941]. Soft Cover. 415, xii p. 18.5 cm. Biography of Queen Catharine, of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536, whose inability to bear a son changed history. Stock# 40,218. Vg/ paper.

Book review. Offprint from Studies in Philology LVII: 1, January 1960, pages 44-71, stapled together without cover; inscribed to Leicester Bradner by the author. Good. Stock#ofc461.

Penguin, 1999. Soft Cover. 309 p., index; 19.5 cm. "Being English used to be so easy. They were one of the most easily identified peoples on earth, recognized by their language, their manners, their clothes and the fact that they drank tea by the bucketload. ...the end of empire, the cracks opening in the so-called United Kingdom, the pressures for the English to plunge into Europe, and the uncontrollability of international business-- set me wondering. What did it mean to be English?" Contents incl. The Land of Lost Content, Funny Foreigners, The English Empire, 'True Born Englishmen' and Other Lies, We Happy Few, The Parish of the Senses, Home Alone, There Always Was an England, The Ideal Englishman, Meet the Wife; Old Country, New Clothes; Bibliography, p. 283-296. Paper; minor soiling to covers; VG. stock#45855.

xvii, 302 p., 21 illus., ports., 3 maps; 22 cm. "Here is English society and government on the eve of the great migration to America. The Crown, the courts, Parliament, the church and the university, town and country, etc. are all brought to life in a book which captures the inner character of the English people of the 17th century." New American Nation Series. Stock#NEU402.

The Old English Period (to 1100), Kemp Malone; The Middle English Period (1100-1500), Albert C. Baugh; The Renaissance (1500-1660), Tucker Brooke; The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789), George Sherburn; The Nineteenth Century and After (1789-1939), Samuel C. Chew. xi, 1673 pages, index. Red cloth, no dust jacket; shelfworn, slightly shaken; withal Good. Stock#ofc0375.

NY, Burt [191-?]. Hard Cover. "The historical facts of the story are all drawn from Froissart and other contemporary historians..." Chapters include Hut in the Marshes; Thwarted Plot; Knight's Chain; Young Esquire; Off to the Wars; Siege of Hennebon; Jacob van Artevelde; White Ford; Cressy; Siege of a Fortalice; Capture of Calais; Black Death; Poitiers; Jacquerie; Victory and Death. vi, 391 pages, frontispiece, 19 cm.; brown cloth decorated in red & black; pages darkened; spine ends & corners worn, chipped, red-ink owner stamp inside front cover; good. Another copy, NY, Hurst & Co., no date, 313 pages, shaken (spine loosened), lacks all before frontispiece, dark green cloth boards stamped in black, green, brown, show a golfing scene!, spine ends chipped; fair. Stock#34121x (S-B).

476 pages. Some tears and wear on dj; binding itself pristine. Smudge mark on bottom left page edge. Otherwise clean. Stock#ofc0052.