They Saw It Happen. An Anthology of Eye-witnesses' Accounts of Events in British History 1485-1688
by Routh, C.R.N. (compiler)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1960). 8vo; original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper genealogy; pp. xiv + (ii) + 220, incl. index. Dustwrapper a little tanned and edgeworn; trace of spotting to top edge. Very good condition. "THEY SAW IT HAPPEN is a book for all who enjoy reading history. It is an anthology of historical events in Tudor and Stuart times described by men and women who were eye witnesses of those events. ... There are eighty-seven accounts in all, and of great variety - entertaining, dramatic and grim. Each has a short explanatory paragraph and a reading list." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10885
- Title
- They Saw It Happen. An Anthology of Eye-witnesses' Accounts of Events in British History 1485-1688
- Author
- Routh, C.R.N. (compiler)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1960)
- Keywords
- English History. House of York. Royal family. Tudor. Stuart History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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