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Tudor Economic Documents
R. H. Tawney; Eileen Power [editors]
1924
Longmans, Green, and Co. : London
8" by 5.5"
xiii, 383; ix, 369; viii, 486pp.
SUMMARY
A smart first edition of this historical economic study on the documents of the Tudor era.
First Edition,Original Binding,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 1.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Complete in three volumes.
First edition.
University of London Historical Series No. IV.
A detailed and comprehensive historical study on select documents illustrating the economic and social situation in Tudor England. With chapters on rural society, towns and crafts, textile industries, colonisation, shipping, coinage, taxation, enclosures and the countryside, industry and trade, and poverty, amongst other subjects.
Volume one covers Agriculture and Industry, volume to covers Commerce, Finance, and the Poor Law, and volume three covers Pamphlets, Memoranda, and Literary Extracts.
Edited by Richard Henry Tawney, an English economic historian, social critic, ethical socialist, Christian socialist, and important proponent of adult education, and Eileen Edna Le Poer Power, a British economic historian and medievalist.
CONDITION
In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Hinges just starting but firm to volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or pencil annotation. Contemporary ink notes to the front pastedown and endpaper.
Overall Condition: Very Good
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Overall Condition
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