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Sir Roger Twysden; ed. John Mitchell Kemble.
Certaine Considerations upon the Government of England.

Published New York: AMS Press, 1968 (reprints the 1849 edn.)
Series: originally issued in the Camden First Series, no. 45.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 160x235x21mm.
Page count: lxxxv, 191pp.
Main language: English; main text given in original spelling, quotations not translated.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy has some mild general wear, but overall doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £14.00
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Weight without packaging: 562g.

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The work of a prominent 17th-century antiquary, this was one of the first studies of English governance to go back to the medieval sources.

Introduction: 81pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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See also | Monarchy | History of law |

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