Author: BRUCE, ALASTAIR; CALDER, JULIAN; CATOR, MARK
Title: Keepers of the Kingdom: The Ancient Offices of Britain
Description: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vendome Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0865652023. 224 pages. Index. Sumptuous colour photography throughout. "Considers over a hundred historical and contemporary titles. Portrays the current holders of these positions in their particular "uniform" - grand, humble, symbolic, or simply practical - and in places that are special and specific to the responsibilities of their role... The informative and lively text relates the story behind each of these images, both as fascinating vignettes of particular circumstances and as part of the history that has made the United Kingdom what it is today." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket. Due to a binding error we have removed the lower corner of the back free endpaper. Corresponding corner of back fixed endpaper damaged but present. A quality copy of this handsome production.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Keepers of the Kingdom: The Ancient Offices of Britain Colour Photography pictorial Works Titles of Honour Honour and Nobility Great Britain Court and Courtiers Rites and Ceremonies Social Life and Customs. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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