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Caxton : the description of Britain : a modern rendering / by Marie Collins ; picture research by Deborah Pownall.
LIBRA DA610 .C65 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Description of Britain.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1988]
- Notes:
- Based on Caxton's version of a 14th century Middle English translation of the Latin Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, which was printed in 1498 by Wynkyn de Worde under title: The description of England.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 155584300X
- OCLC:
- 17872297
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