Buy this book on-line HUGILL, ROBERT: : CASTLES AND PELES OF THE ENGLISH BORDERUK.NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.FRANK GRAHAM,1970. ISBN 0900409169.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around b/w reproduction castle print,illustrated dw/dj with b/w lettering to front and red+ black lettering to spine and black printer's device to rear; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - one tiny snick/closed tear on top front edge - no other major nicks or tears present.Some minimal laminate peeling and subsequent loss at foot of spine/backstrip - else 99.7% present and complete.Top edges with some minimal,faint,dust-soiling; fore-edges with some minimal foxing/spotting streaks else fairly bright and clean,contents (text body) bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black rexine/faux leather boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters - some individual letters with some minimal oxidisation to title+author,to spine/backstrip, and generally clean plain pale blue endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xiipp+2-243pp [paginated] includes separate contents+ illustrations lists/tables,a foreword,an introduction,an A - W of listed Anglo-Scottish Borders fortifications,castles,peles etc (109 examples) each with potted history text,profuse b/w illustrations as b/w drawings,maps,old prints and b/w photographs,a glossary; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and first side/page of contents list/table,illustrations list,along with first side/pages' of foreword and introduction.
Northumberland,Durham and Cumberland are famous for their numerous castle and pele towers.In the present book the most important of these fortifications are described in detail.A large number of drawings,old prints and photographs show what these buildings were like in the past and the present.This work is the most comprehensive ever published (then 1970) to describe the castles of the English and Scottish border.
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