Caxton; The Description of Britain; A Modern Rendering
by Collins, Marie (Contributor Deborah Pownall.)
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0283994363
- ISBN 13
- 9780283994364
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Sidgwick & Jackson [0-283-99436-3] 1988, 1st printing. (4to) 176pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs and illustrations, maps, notes, index. "William Caxton, perhaps best known as the man who brough the printing industry to England, was also an astute publisher: it was he who made the Description of Britain available to the British public in 1480. Basing his version on a fourteenth-century Middle English translation of the Latin Polychronicon - or universal history - Caxton decided to focus on the chapters describing Britain". Book about William Caxton. Time Period 15th Century. Contributors include Deborah Pownall. Locale: England. (History--England, Printing Presses).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152163
- Title
- Caxton; The Description of Britain; A Modern Rendering
- Author
- Collins, Marie (Contributor Deborah Pownall.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0283994363
- ISBN 13
- 9780283994364
- Publisher
- Sidgwick & Jackson
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1988
- Keywords
- History--England, Printing Presses
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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