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Irene Gladwyn.
The Sheriff: The Man and his Office.

Published London: Victor Gollancz, 1974.
ISBN 0575017198.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Ebenezer Baylis & Son, Trinity Press, London & Worcester.
Size: 142x220x37mm.
Page count: text 411pp; plates 12pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is very creased and ragged, patched with adhesive tape on its unprinted side; boards and spine have some mild wear at the edges and corners; page edges rather foxed and dusty, and a bit yellowed with age; a literary agent's sticker fixed to the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.


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Weight without packaging: 737g.

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Contents: Anglo-Saxon reeve & origin of the sheriff; Norman sheriff; Shrievalty under Henry II & Richard I; Angevin absolutism — King John’s henchmen — Magna Carta & aftermath; Rebellion & reform in reign of Henry III; Crime & corruption in 14th c.; 15th c.; Tudor sheriff; 17th c.; Making of the modern sheriff.
Appendices: Sheriff in the new world; Scotland; Wales.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 12 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes


See also | History of law |

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