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David Jones.
Your Book of Abbeys.
Published London: Faber and Faber, 1979.
Series:Your Book.
ISBN 0571109241.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Latimer Trend & Co., Plymouth.
Size: 155×216×11mm.
Page count: text 52pp; plates 12pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has a bit of wear on its covers, especially at the edges and corners; some foxing on the page edges, and a few spots internally; previous owner’s bookplate on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 227g.

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Contents: How the abbeys began; The end of the abbeys; Benedictines; Cistercians; More monks, canons & friars; Finding your way round an abbey.

Illustrations: 4 text illustrations, plus 12 pages of plates; all monochrome
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: a few references
Index: yes

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