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Felipe Fernández-Armesto, gen. ed.
A History of England:
(i): Hunter Blair, Anglo-Saxon England;
(ii): M. T. Clanchy, Early Medieval England;
(iii): M. H. Keen, England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History.
Published London: Folio Society, 1997:
(i): previously issued as An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Cambridge U.P.; reprints emended version of 1995 revised edition;
(ii): combines emended text of England and its Rulers 1066-1272 (Fontana 1983) and extracts from 2nd edn. of From Memory to Written Record (Blackwell, 1993);
(iii): reprints emended text from 1973 edition published by Methuen.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; coloured tops; 3 vols in a single slip case, published without a dustjackets.
Printer: St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St. Edmunds; Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh.
Size: 168×261×128mm.
Page counts: (i): text xxxv,364pp; plates 24pp; (ii): text xviii,452pp; plates 25pp; (iii): text xxvi,534pp; plates 25pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: doesn’t look too heavily worn, though binding of vol. iii starting to sag somewhat; previous owner’s name on title pages of all three volumes, otherwise appears to be free of marking.

This item £30.00 for 3‑vol. set
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Weight without packaging: over 3500g.

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Contents:
(i): Foundations of England; Britain & the Vikings; The Church; Government; Economy; Letters;
(ii): England’s place in medieval Europe; Norman Conquest; Norman govt.; Church reform; Struggles for the kingdom; Law & order; 12th‑c. Renaissance; King John & minority of Henry III; Personal rule of Henry III; National identity; Commune of England; The written word in the Middle Ages;
(iii): Edward I & Edward II; Age of Edward III; Changing world of later Middle Ages; Uncertain years 1360-1415; Rise & fall of Lancastrian empire; The Yorkists.

Illustrations: (i): 15 pages of monochrome and 9 pages of colour plates; (ii): 16 pages of monochrome and 9 pages of colour plates; (iii): 12 pages of monochrome and 13 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: (i): 16; (ii): 2; (iii): 2.

Notes: (i) & (iii) at foot of page; (ii) after main sections.
Tables: no
Genealogies: (ii) 3; (iii): 5.
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: (i) 8pp; (ii) 5pp; (iii) 19pp.
Index: yes, in each volume

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