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The Battlement Garden: Britain from the Wars of the Roses to the Age of Shakespeare
by Hodges, C. Walter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0233969381
- ISBN 13
- 9780233969381
- Seller
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About This Item
London, England: Andre Deutsch/BBC, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back The Mirror of Britain Series Book. First Printing. Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket in Mylar Cover. Illustrations, photographs, color plates, index. Nearly 60 black and white illustrations and eight pages in full colour. Jacket illustration is a detail, enlarged, from a 16th century miniature by Simon Beninck. Binding of blue cloth w/silver titles on spine, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid and square; bottom edges lightly rubbed, otherwise Fine. Interior is as new. Clean, bright, glossy black jacket with illustration is edgeworn with chipping to spine head/heel and edges. small triangular piece missing near spine front edge, closed tear to lower front corner, about a half inch. Price-clipped. Mylar protective jacket cover. Walter Hodges traces the flowering of the Tudor period, with emphasis on two events, both of which took place in 1485; first, the printer William Caxton published Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, and second, the Battle of Bosworth that brought Henry VII to the throne.The Civil Wars were ended, prosperity was possible, and the English could dream, with Malory, of the ideal English past of Arthurian England--a past that gave them confidence they could re-establish and even surpass. And thus, by 1603, when Henry VII grand-daughter Queen Elizabeth I died ,she left a peaceful country, rich in literature, painting, architecture, music, and strong abroad as well. 144 pages with Epilogue, Bibliography, and Index. 6.5" x 9.75 x 6.5 inches. Andre Deutsch, London, England, 1979.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017363
- Title
- The Battlement Garden: Britain from the Wars of the Roses to the Age of Shakespeare
- Author
- Hodges, C. Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0233969381
- ISBN 13
- 9780233969381
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch/BBC
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- TUDOR AGE; GREAT BRITAIN, HISTORY; ENGLAND, CIVILIZATION-16TH CENTURY; THE CHURCH; CATHERINE OF ARAGON; DRAKE, FRANCIS; ELIZABETH I; HENRY VIII; HONDIUS, JODOCUS; LONDON; MARY TUDOR; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; SPAIN; CAXTON, BATTLE BOSWORTH;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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