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Geoffrey of Monmouth; trans. Lewis Thorpe.
The History of the Kings of Britain.
Published London: Folio Society, 1969 (text previously issued by Penguin Books, 1966).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; leather spine, tinted tops; slipcase, published without a dustjacket.
Printers: W. & J. Mackay & Co., Chatham, and the Westerham Press.
Size: 150×225mm.
Page count: 260pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the slipcase on this copy is rather scuffed and rubbed; the book itself looks in reasonable order, previous owner’s name on the title page, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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[Penguin paperback in print at £9.99]
Weight without packaging: 712g.

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Contents: Brutus occupies the Island of Albion; Before the Romans came; Coming of the Romans; House of Constantine; Prophecies of Merlin; House of Constantine (continued); Arthur of Britain; Saxon domination.

Illustrations: 11 colour plates
Maps & plans: 1, repeated on front and back endpapers

Introduction: 22pp
Notes: infrequent, at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: no

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