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Walter Hawkins and E. Thornton Smith.
The Story of Alfred the Great.
Published London: Horace Marshall and Son, 1900.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK by Bradbury, Agnew & Co.
Size: 130x193x20mm.
Page count: text viii,142; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition poor to fair: this copy has no dustjacket; boards worn at the edges and corners, and blotchy overall; splits to the binding here and there, though no pages are detached previous owner’s name to the front endpaper, and at least one page has a pencilled cross in the margin.

This item £7.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 356g.

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Contents: Childhood; Youth; Early manhood — 1st conflict with the Danes; Crisis — Athelney & Ethandune; National restoration — Defence — Law — Church & school; Alfred as author; The Danes again; Closing years — estimate of character.

Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates

Notes: none ("Having regard to the kind of readers the book is specially designed for, its pages are not encumbered with foot-notes and references to authorities. At the same time the readers may rest assured that such authorities have been consulted.")
Genealogies: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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