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W. O. Hassall, comp.
They Saw It Happen: An Anthology of Eye-witnesses' Accounts of Events in British History, 55 BC-AD 1485.

Published Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1959 reprint (previously issued 1957).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: A. T. Broome & Son and the Kemp Hall Bindery, Oxford.
Size: 145x222x22mm.
Page count: xxiii,236pp.
Main language: English (a few of the last pieces given in original spelling).
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is enclosed in bibliofoil, doesn’t look heavily worn; some mild general wear to the book, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £9.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 479g.

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Emphasis primarily medieval. Provides a comprehensive collection of short extracts from a wide range of sources (chronicles, estate records, etc.)

Introduction: 6pp
Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: illustrated endpapers
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: pp
Index: yes



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