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Set of two volumes, hardbacks in green cloth boards, gilt titles on spine, light shelfwear, some fading to the bottom of the spines, both have previous owner's labels on front endpapers, both also have two previous owners' names in ink on front endpapers, vol 2 has some foxing to the endpapers and edge block, otherwise in Very Good condition, dustwrappers both price-clipped. First edition, combined pp461. Vol 1: The First Phase 1688 - 1716, pp240, b&w illustrations, index. Vol 2: The Last Phase 1716 - 1807, pp221, b&w illustrations, index. Revised and expanded version, in two volumes, of Petrie's standard history, first published as a single volume in 1932. Seller Inventory # 012601
Title: The Jacobite Movement: Two Volumes: The ...
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
TWO VOLUMES. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. The First Phase, 240 pp.; The Second Phase, 221 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in unclipped dust wrappers, The First Phase having sunned spine. A little sunning of upper and lower board edges and slight browning and foxing of endpapers. Page edges foxed, notably top edges; otherwise a very good set. 1951 signatures on first free endpapers. Illustrated by 16 black and white pages of plates, including 2 frontispieces, and by diagram in text. A two volume set providing a detailed political history of the Jacobite movement from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the extinction of the exiled Stuart dynasty in 1807. Part of the text appeared in a shorter text of this title in 1932. The historian, Charles Petrie (1895-1977), with his royalist interests, sympathised with right wing causes and some of the European dictators like Mussolini and Franco, in the inter-war years, before moving to a more centrist conservative viewpoint. HISTORY/THEOLOGY JACOBITES HISTORY 17TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY POLITICS ILLUSTRATED HISTORY/THEOLOGY. Seller Inventory # 29444
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