Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England and the influence of Ramsey Abbey on the major English monastic schools. (3 Volumes, complete, PRESENTATION SET) Volume I: The New Curriculum in Monastic Schools; Volume II, Books 1 and 2: A Survey of the Development of Mathematical, Medical, and Scientific Studies in England before the Norman Conquest.
Published by The Edwin Mellen Press in Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter 2003
SKU: 50919
ISBN: 0773468862
£260.00
FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED, PRESENTATION SET with letters. 3 Volumes. 8vo. jade green cloth hardbacks with colour illustrations to upper boards. Vol. I: 667pp. and Vol. II, Parts 1 and 2: 666pp. All volumes indexed and illustrated in b/w. Volume I contains long presentation inscription from the Author to ffep and a loose postcard concerning the illustration to the front cover. It also has a bookplate of the Author's to front pastedown. Volume II, Part one also contains a loose letter from the Author to the same recipient, partly concerning the Author's displeasure with the quality of the binding and the longwinded titles chosen by the Publisher! All three volumes slightly worn at edges, particularly Volume I (please see photos) otherwise a VERY GOOD ASSOCIATION SET.
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