1885 - The Making Of England, Green, Macmillan, Maps

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by; John Richard Green, M.A. LLD.

HONORARY FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE" "SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE" ETC.

This is the third edition of this detailed book on English History by this renowned author.

This book has 29 maps 28 of which are "In Text" with one double page single sided map. The bind is good but the covers front and rear are both detached completely and the book is therefore in a delicate state and priced accordingly.

This is an ex library book from the Duchesne College which is part of the University of Queensland, Australia. There are yellow markings which would possibly remove to the front and rear covers where the book at some point had been taped. There is some light foxing but mainly to the double page map which is shown, the rest of the pages are in very good condition.

The book is quite a handsome volume with marbled endpapers and page edges on all three sides (as shown) and a good spine with only partial loss to the gilding. The spine is decorated with six panels or compartments.

The first free marbled end page is detached but present and there is some loss on this page but minor, the first four or so pages are attached but a little loose. There is a very old booksellers stamp to the inside front cover and some library stamps and numbers in the preface pages.

This is an exciting book detailing the early history of England and quite collectible.

Here is an excerpt from one of the pages in the book to give you a feel for the content;

62 THE MAKING OF ENGLAND

CHAP. vi. with the great defeat. The West-Saxons resumed The North- their old independence, and the force which they supremacy gained from this deliverance spurred them to take 617-659. up again their long interrupted advance against the Britons in the west. In 652 a victory at Bradford on the Avon drove the Welsh from their stronghold in the woodlands which ran like a wedge into West-Saxon land up the valley of the Frome, and a second campaign six years later settled the West-Saxons as conquerors round the sources of the Parrett. But the loss of outer influence was little beside the internal ruin of the Mercian state itself. The power which had grown up in Central Britain crumbled beneath Oswiu's blow. The peoples whom Penda had brought together sheered off into their old isolation. East- Anglia, the actual prize of the contest, naturally found a new overlord in Oswiu. Lindsey passed under the direct rule of the Northumbrian con- queror, and if the Southumbrians about Notting- ham escaped the same fate, it was by their revival as a distinct kingdom, though subject, no doubt, to the overlord in the north. The removal of Peada from his sovereignty over the Middle- English of Leicester shows that these too, pro- bably with their neighbours the South-English of Northampton, were freed from the supremacy of Mercia.

Item ID: GR8-2025