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John Dover-Wilson, ed.
Life in Shakespeare’s England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951 reprint (previously issued 1944; original edn. was Cambridge U.P., 1911).
Series: Pelican Books.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge.
Size: 111×180×19mm.
Page count: text 367pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are slightly grubby, some creasing on its spine, some wear at the edges and corners; pages yellowed with age, some repairs with transparent tape on the binding at either end of the book though no pages are detached; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
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[Cambridge U.P. paperback in print at £22.99]
Weight without packaging: 228g.

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Contents. presents extracts from a broad range of primary sources, organised under the following headings: England & the English; The countryside; Superstition; Education; London; Books & authors; The theatre; The court; House & home; Rogues & vagabonds; The sea; An Elizabethan day.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: no
Index of authors.

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