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    • Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford

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      1958, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 165pp. Map, notes, glossary, index. The spine is faded, the bottom corner is lightly bumped and there is a previous owner's name in ink on the front fixed endpaper. "In 1787 John Fenn, a Norfolk antiquarian, published under the title Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. And Richard III. By various Persons of Rank or Consequence a selection from a large number of manuscripts in his possession. They had come into his hands, through several intermediate owners, from the estate of William Paston, second Earl of Yarmouth, who died in 1732 and with whom the main Paston line became extinct" - from the introduction. Letters of John Paston & Margaret Paston. Book about Paston Family. Contributors include Horace Walpole, Virginia Woolf. Introduction and commentary by Norman Davis. (History--England, History--England, Literary Criticism).