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Book Description: The University of Melbourne, History Department, Melbourne, 2000. Pictorial Wraps. Book Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 21 x 14cm. ASSOCIATION COPY, with laid-in AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the author, in black ink, which reads in full: "David. Here it is, along with my grateful thanks for your generous help and encouragement. Paul. 6 February 2001". From the library of author/historian Professor David Philips. The recipient of the ALS, David Philips was an associate professor & lecturer at Melbourne University, with his signature in blue ink on half-title page. David Philips specialized in crime and the law in nineteenth-century England and colonial Australia. Author Paul Nicholls, in his 2-pages of acknowledgements, notes in the final paragraph "Above all I am grateful to Associate Professor David Philips, for the additional reason that he read the whole text at an early stage. For his constructive criticism and shrewd advice, I am (in the words of Thomas Crammer) unfeighnedly thankful". The University of Melbourne History Monograph - Number 27 (rear cover states 26). Comprehensive chapter notes. Includes glossary, bibliography, plus index. From rear cover: "At the General Election held at the height of the Second Anglo-Boer War, a concerted attempt was made to use the poll as a means of forcing the government to discipline anglo-catholic ritualists who, their opponents alleged, were subverting England's Protestant Church. At the close of the nineteenth century, therefore, the battles of the sixteenth-century Reformation were fought again in this, the last election in Britain when religion was a major issue. -- UMHM is a series of history monographs flowing from research undertaken by staff, postgraduate students and research associates in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. This series is directed towards a public with interests in historical study, and includes collections of documents, reflections on historical method and studies of current issues in a wide range of fields in the discipline." Bound in original pictorial wraps. Very slight shelfwear, otherwise a LIKE NEW very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 389pp. Scarce title & important association copy with ALS laid in. Signed. Bookseller Inventory # 001985

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