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Arthur Bryant.
Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from the Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century.
Published London: Grafton Books, 1986 reprint (previously issued 1985; hardback was Collins, 1984).
Series: A History of Britain and the British People, vol. 1.
ISBN 0586063730;
ISBN-13 9780586063736.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Collins, Glasgow.
Size: 129x196x26mm.
Page count: text 480pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the covers on this copy are a bit grubby and yellowed with age, but not badly worn; text pages printed on low-grade paper, so yellowed with age; the spine is a bit wrinkled but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 380g.

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Contents: Silent vanished races; Coming of the English; The faith; Alfred & the Danes; Bones of shire & state; Norman discipline; Lawyer king; Bell, book & candle; Holy blissful martyr; Magna Carta; Counsel, consent & parliament; Wild Wales; Scotland the Brave; Grey goosefeather; War's nemesis; Peasants in revolt; Dethronement of an anointed king; The medieval village; Travellers, towns & traders; Gothic glory; Twilight of the holy church.

Illustrations: 16 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 3

Notes: occasional, at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 3pp
Indexes: Subject; Persons & places.

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