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Geoffrey Ashe, ed.
The Quest for Arthur’s Britain.
Published London: Book Club Associates, 1972 (previously published in larger format by Pall Mall Press, 1968).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney, Aylesbury.
Size: 134×202×20mm.
Page count: text xi,238pp; plates 64pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is rather worn with its spine fairly faded; binding starting to split in front of the title page, though no pages are detached, and one or two lighter splits starting elsewhere; printed on low-grade paper, so pages yellowed with age; previous owner’s name on the front endpaper, otherwise the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 435g.

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This is the earlier Pall Mall edition reissued in a more convenient size, the same text, but with fewer illustrations.

Contents:
Ashe, Visionary kingdom;
Ashe, Arthurian fact;
Ralegh Radford, Romance & reality in Cornwall;
Alcock, Wales in the Arthurian age;
Ralegh Radford, Glastonbury Abbey;
Rahtz, Glastonbury Tor;
Alcock & Ashe, Cadbury — is it Camelot?;
Ashe, Extending the map;
Ashe & Racy, Life in the Arthurian age;
Ashe, Arthur & English history;
Ashe, New matter of Britain.

Illustrations 112 text illustrations, and 64 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans 22

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronologies: 4
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 8pp
Index: yes

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