Author: BRYANT, SIR ARTHUR
Title: Restoration England
Description: London, Collins. 1961. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has a decorative bookplate to front pastedown and a little light foxing to closed edges with Very Good+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 192 pages. 11 illustrations. First published as 'The England of Charles II' in 1934 and revised by the author in 1960. An indispensable companion to Sir Arthur Bryant's other seventeenth century studies. Stock of the original edition was destroyed in the Blitz of 1940: this new edition is both revised and illustrated. The book describes 'a visit to a far country..the land we now inhabit, but then occupied by our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents'. 'I have tried', the author writes, 'to depict that century as they knew it - the feel and sense of it, its sights, sounds and even smells.' NOT EX LIB A1B. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: English Restoration


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