The Saxons in England. A history of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest

by John Mitchell Kemble

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Longman, Brown et al. , 1849. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols.; slight staining to covers but generally a very good copy in original blue-green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. The runic archaeologist George Stephens's copy, with his ownership signature dated the year on publication on the flyleaf of each volume, with an occasional annotation by him in the text, and three 12mo leaves of notes in his hand laid in. Important history by the famed philologist and

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