Buy this book on-line Norgate, Kate : England Under the Angevin Kings(London: Macmillan, 1887)
Two demy 8vo volumes; original brown cloth with margins of boards ruled in blind, and spine lettered in gilt in each case; bookplate of J. Willis Dixon on front pastedown of each volume; pencilled name on front free endpaper of first volume; pp. x + (ii) + 506 + (ii), vi + (ii) + 521 + (iii); maps and plans, including one folding in second volume. Binding somewhat slack, with moderate wear to backstrip, in each case; pronounced foxing to endpapers, some further foxing to prelims., and occasionally elsewhere; lower hinge tender in second volume; regular, light browning; a little archival tape reinforcing to some gatherings. Fair to good condition, with the bookplates of a member of the famous Sheffield silver family. This classic treatise on the strictly Angevin line of rulers in England - excluding Plantagenet and later royal houses - traces their history from the time of Henry I, father to Matilda, mother of Henry II, the island nation's first Angevin monarch. It covers the reign of Richard the Lion Heart and his brother John I. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Norgate, Kate : England Under the Angevin Kings. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, livres rares, used books, collectables and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |