Author: ACKROYD, PETER.
Title: Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xxii, 516; illustrated endpapers, 16 pages of coloured photographic plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations, chronology, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. London; Chatto & Windus; 2002. The book discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries. It demonstrates that a quintessentially English quality can be discovered in all forms of English culture, not only literature but also in painting, music, architecture, philosophy and science.
Keywords: culture england history miscellaneous
Title: Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xxii, 516; illustrated endpapers, 16 pages of coloured photographic plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations, chronology, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. London; Chatto & Windus; 2002. The book discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries. It demonstrates that a quintessentially English quality can be discovered in all forms of English culture, not only literature but also in painting, music, architecture, philosophy and science.
Keywords: culture england history miscellaneous
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 114826
- Book number: 114826