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G. G. Coulton.
Fourscore Years: An Autobiography.

Publisher: Cambridge U.P., 1943.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 147x220x24mm.
Page count: text viii,378pp; plates 11pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; page edges slightly dusty, plate pages a bit yellowed with age; a bookseller’s sticker inside the front board, and previous owner’s name on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.


This item £8.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback £24.99]
Weight without packaging: 529g.

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Contents: Wenseydale & Oldham; Apron strings; Dame’s school; Victorian Lynn; St‑Omer; Grammar school; Pentney; Public school; Chrysalis stage; Cambridge in 1877; College small-beer; St. Catharine’s; Malvern Wells; Llandaff; Parish work; Fresh woods; Wales; Heidelberg; Sherborne; Sedbergh; Dulwich College; Lausanne & Naples; Sorrento & Amalfi; Homeward bound; South Lynn; Bee in the bonnet; Winter sport; Thurlestone; First books; Cambridge again; History & controversy; Extreme case; Soul’s ease.
Appendix: in praise of J.‑P. Migne.

Illustrations: 4 text figures and 11 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes


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