Offa's Dyke: Field Survey of the Western Frontier-Works of Mercia in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries A.D. With a Foreword by Sir Frank Stenton (Provenance Copy)

Fox, Sir Cyril

Published by The British Academy, London, 1955

About this Item

Published for the British Academy by Geoffrey Cumberlege (Oxford University Press). First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. VG/HC, red cloth and silver gilt-tooling to covers. xxvii + 317pp. 46 plates in B/W, some in color, folding, with 121 in-text B/W figures. Errata tipped-in p. 286. Unmarked and firm. This first major survey "still remains a vital record." Includes relevant portion of Sir John Rhy's memorial lecture for 1940. Ex-libris bookplate of John Raymond Danson (1893-1976. cf. Danson Library, Trinity College, Oxford) by Stephen Gooden (Dodgson, 'An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden', London, 1944). Extra international shipping charges required.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Offa's Dyke: Field Survey of the Western Frontier-Works of Mercia in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries A.D. With a Foreword by Sir Frank Stenton (Provenance Copy)
• Publisher: The British Academy, London
• Publication Date: 1955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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  • Archaeology
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  • Anglo-Saxon