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Anthony Cooney.
The Story of Saint George: The Life and Legend of England’s Patron Saint.
Published Cheltenham: This England Books, 1999.
ISBN 0906324238.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed boards, no dustjacket.
Printer: Polestar Wheatons, Exeter.
Size: 151x217x11mm.
Page count: 100pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs and marks on the covers; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 294g.

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Primarily polemical in emphasis, though brings historical background to bear; and perhaps not entirely aimed at the man in the Clapham omnibus (“Most of us, I imagine, grew up on public school stories…”)

No medieval emphasis. Contents: Birthday in Heaven; A bogus Saint George; The world of St. George; Fame of St. George; The English St. George; Where the rainbow wends; St. George & the dragon; Pendragons, knights & kings; St. George, patron of England; Day of adornment; Banners & roses; St. George & the noble Order of the Garter; Hurrah for Tom Brown!
Appendices: The St. George’s Day Association; St. George’s Day & the BBC.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: frequent, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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