THE ANGLO-SAXONS: A HISTORY OF THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLAND.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Dw/dj,incorrectly aligned to board,causing both the front and rear inner flaps with extra vertical folds/creases to their respective external and internal fore-edges, respectively.Dw/dj re-aligned correctly.Bright, crisp, clean,matt,colour decorative illustration with bright, crisp gilt embellishment with glossy,capitalised white lettered title and author's name and capitalised gilt sub-title to front,gilt spine backstrip with glossy capitalised red+white lettered part-title and author's name,rear panel with a near similar colour decorative illustration also with gilt embellishment and critics' orange+white lettered reviews for this title.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean and without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip, and clean plain orange endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,xi-xvipp+1-508pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements, with blank verso,4pp illustrations list/table,author introduction,10 chapters each with a regional b/w map facing first page of each chapter,and a Conclusion,16pp contemporary colour photographs (artefacts & scenic locations) in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp144/45 and pp353/53 respectively,a profuse mixture of b/w illustrations,maps and location photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,abbreviations,Notes,a 26pp biblography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] 4pp plain orange blanks, publisher's b/w colophon illustrated printed EX LIBRIS page,title page,a dedication with blank verso,contents list/table,genealogical family tree charts(2), and to the rear 4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is still more than aceptable,and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite that,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. A history that spans more than half a millennium,'The Anglo-Saxons' is nothing less than a quest for England's origins.This is the story of our island at its most strange and evocative period - the time of the Anglo-Saxons.
Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin.Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble,and civil society collapsed into chaos.Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea,and established themselves as its new masters.The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries.It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy,and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the Vikings.It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art.It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires,boroughs and bishoprics.It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa,Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor,but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens,revolutionary saints,intolerant monks and grasping nobles.Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society,a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles,letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood,separates the truth from the legend,and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid. Marc Morris's brilliant new book will take its readers from an alien world of slaves,temples,villas,druids and amphorae,to a familiar landscape of shires and boroughs,villages,parish churches and minsters; from the worship of vanished gods like Thor and Woden to the veneration of saints - Cuthbert,Alban,Edmund - who are still recognised today; from a population who spoke Latin and Celtic,to one whose language was recognizably the ancestor of the English that is spoken today.This is the story of our island at its most strange and evocative period - the time of the Anglo-Saxons.
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