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Geoffrey Ashe, ed.
The Quest for Arthur’s Britain.
Published London: Paladin, 1971 (previously issued in hardback by Pall Mall Press, 1968).
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd., Aylesbury.
Size: 130×195×17mm.
Page count: xi,238pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks somewhat battered, some creasing on its covers and spine, and wear to the edges and corners; pages somewhat yellowed with age; previous owner’s rubber stamp inside the front cover, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
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Weight without packaging: 341g.

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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: 113 text figure, plus 64 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 23

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

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