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The Oxford illustrated history of the British monarchy / John Cannon and Ralph Griffiths.
LIBRA Special DA40 .C29 1989x
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cannon, John, 1926-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monarchy.
- History.
- Great Britain--Politics and government.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Monarchy--Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Great Britain--History.
- Political science.
- Social history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 727 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Repr. with corrections.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400 illustrations--a third of them in color--it traces the crown's full history from Anglo-Saxon times to the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 679-692) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. notes (4 leaves) laid in at front.
- OCLC:
- 23128036
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