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Mrs A. Murray Smith (E. T. Bradley).
The Roll-Call of Westminster Abbey, second edition.
Published London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1902 (September; previous edn. was June 1902).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh & London.
Size: 140x198x42mm.
Page count: text xvi,418pp; plates 25pp; 5 foldouts.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; some general wear to the boards and spine, especially at the edges and corners; some foxing on the pages and here and there internally, occasionally fairly heavy; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £7.00
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[Various POD edns available]
Weight without packaging: 573g.

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Presents a survey of people commemorated or interred within the Abbey, no overall medieval emphasis.

Contents:  A vision of the mighty dead; St. Edward’s shrine; Family of Henry III; Plantagenets & their connection with the Abbey; Richard II; House of Lancaster; Royal benefactors & great builders; The Abbey under the early Tudors; 2 royal duchesses; Court of the maiden queen; English Tudors & Scotch Stuarts; A King’s favourite & his contemporaries; Worthies of the Commonwealth; Abbey funerals after the Restoration; Naval & military heroes; Last Stuart kings — their contemporaries & descendants; Children of the Abbey; Poets etc. of 17th & 18th cc.; Actors & actresses; Doctors of divinity, medicine & science; Musicians; Reigns of the first Georges; A century of national monuments; Makers of our Indian Empire; Politicians, philanthropists & lawyers; End of the roll-call. 

Notes: infrequent, at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 25 pages of monochrome plates
Floorplans: 5
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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