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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE
By J. R. Green
Published by Macmillan & Co, London, 1892. Complete in Four Volumes. Half leather bindings with cloth sides. Marble endpapers. Gilt to top edges. pp cvi, 1906pp. Illustrated with coloured and b&w plates, with a large folding plate at frontispiece of vol III showing Old London Bridge.
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Very good clean set. The leather bindings are in very good clean condition. The marble endpapers are good. Pages are in lovely clean condition throughout. All plates present and in good clean condition. Overall a very good clean set, handsomely bound.
Green's concentration on social and industrial history gave his work great influence on his contemporaries. First published in 1874 this illustrated edition was edited by his widow Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian and Nationalist and by Kate Norgate who wrote an important study on the Angevin kings.
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