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Frank N. Magill, ed.
Dictionary of World Biography: Volume 3, The Renaissance.
Published Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn/Pasadena: Salem Press, 1998.
ISBN 0893563153.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Size: 220x286x59mm.
Page count: xv,813pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some scuffs on the covers, some wear at the edges and corners; binding sags under the weight of the pages; page edges a bit foxed and grubby; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 2730g.

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Reworks material previously published in the Great Lives from History series (1987-95). Covers the period 1400-approx. 1600, the focus being on the European and Islamic worlds, but with a liberal sprinkling of significant personalities from elsewhere. Contains 211 essays arranged alphabetically, average around 3 or 4 pages each; each is organised into the sections “Early life”, “Life’s work”, and “Summary”, and is followed by a brief bibliography.

Illustrations: approx 160, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: references at the end of each entry
Indexes: Area of achievement; Geographical location; Name index.

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