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M. St. Clare Byrne.
Elizabethan Life in Town and Country.
Published London: Methuen & Co., 1925.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK.
Size: 130x194x38mm.
Page count: x,295pp plus 8 pages of monochrome plates, and an 8pp publisher’s catalogue bound in at the back.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has no dustjacket; boards & spine a little grubby but not heavily worn; page tops dusty, some yellowing to the pages at either end of the book; binding appears to be sound; given as a school prize, so a plate fixed inside the front board (Girls' County School, Durham); previous owner’s name to the front endpaper, otherwise the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £12.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 439g.

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Contents: England’s Elizabeth & Elizabeth’s England; The Elizabethan at home; London town; Queen’s highway; Queen’s mapmaker; Country life & the country-side; Country folk & country ways; Master & man & masterless men; Religion; Childhood & education; The university; "Young & old come forth to play"; The theatre; Wonder-books & old wives' tales; An Elizabethan day; Appendices.

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