The Parliaments of Elizabethan England - Dean & Jones - Blackwell 1990 1st HC DJ

by N. L. Jones

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The Parliaments of Elizabethan England, edited by D. M. Dean and N. L. Jones. Basil Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge MA, 1990 - first edition. ISBN 9780631152675. Eight essays on the Elizabethan parliaments as a legislative rather than an oppositional body: G. R. Elton on the triumph of parliamentary law, Michael Graves on managing parliaments, Wallace MacCaffrey on foreign policy, J. D. Alsop on taxation, Norman Jones on religion in parliament, David Dean on parliament and locality, T. E. Hartley on sheriffs and county elections, and Conrad Russell on the parliaments of 1593-1606. Jacket illustration from d'Ewes's Journals (1682). Provenance: from the personal library of the historian William Brown Patterson - scholar of the English Reformation and author of King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge) and William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England (Oxford) - with his bookplate on the front pastedown; one of several books from his library offered here. Condition: GOOD. Hardcover in the publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, in the original dust jacket under a removable mylar protector. Jacket toned with light foxing, a small dark scuff at the top of the rear panel, and a light crease to the upper corner of the front flap; no printed price on the flaps. Tiny nick to the cloth at the top corner of the front board. Foxing to the page edges and endpapers. Binding tight and square. Some pencil underlining in the text, otherwise clean - a wo

• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Year: 1990
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780631152675
• Condition: Good

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