A BOOK OF ENGLAND - with - A BOOK OF SCOTLAND - with - A BOOK OF IRELAND

Published by Collier Books - A Scribner Classic, London, 1970

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Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, CanadaWF Sandercombe

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511, 384, 384 pp. Black boards decorated in silver on the spine; blue cloth decorated in siliver on the spne; red cloth decorated in silver on the spine; England has decorated endpapers. All three books have been illustrated with black and white plates. Dustjackets by Gordon F. Huntley and Ronald Mongredian. All three books have a bit of wear at the corners; England and Ireland have been price clipped; Ireland has a previous ownner's name inside; the other two have no interior markings. England contains writing about: History; London; Customs; Places; Gardens, Flowers and Trees; Going to the Play; Colleges and Schools; Seas and Sailors; Sport; Character and Comedy; and First and Last Things; by an assortment of authors, including: Rudyard Kipling; William Shakespeare; G. K. Chesterton; Samuel Pepys; Jane Austen; Bernard Shaw; James Boswell; Charles Lamb; John Milton; William Blake; John Keats; and scores of others. Scotland has a colour frontis of Robert Burns and contains: Places; History; Pastoral; People, Great and Small; Humour and Sentiment; Customes, Hospitality; Poems, Songs, Ballads; and Religious and Mystical; with an assortment of authors, including: Robert Burns; Sir Walter Scott; James Boswell; Andrew Lang; Thomas Carlyle; Lord Byron; David Livingstone; Robert Louis Stevenson; William Wordsworth; and many, many more. And Ireland has writing about: Places; History; Pastoral and Town Life; People Great and Small; Humour, Romance and Sentiment; Customs and Beliefs; Poems, Songs and Ballads; and Religious and Philosophical; followed by Principal Dates in Irish History and an Index. Size: 12mo. …

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Bibliographic details

Title
A BOOK OF ENGLAND - with - A BOOK OF SCOTLAND - with - A BOOK OF IRELAND
Author
Brown, Ivor; Maine, G. F.; O'Connor, Frank (editors)
Publisher
Collier Books - A Scribner Classic, London
Publication year
1970
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Book Type
Book
Binding
Hardcover
Illustrator
Gordon F. Huntley; Ronald Mongredian;
Edition
Later Printings.
Seller catalogs
History - Great Britain, Travel and Adventure

WF Sandercombe

Burlington, ON, Canada

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