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Hardback. No Dustjacket. Second Printing. Ex-Library copy with all the usual faults. Tight sound copy with minimal wear and some underlining. A nice reading copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with thirty-three black and white illustrations and photographic plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece showing: Queen Elizabeth from the portrait (painter, unknown) in the National Gallery, as called for. ***Very good in grey-blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and front board. A few underlinings and the odd word in pencil (can easily be erased). Pages clean. Top edge of last two pages uncut (can be carefully cut open). Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and nicked. Spine tight. ***200mm x138mm. xvi prelim pages including two-page preface by the author plus 517 pages including chronological table and index to rear. ***Contents: Chapters: I. The Making of The Race; II. British Christianity; III. The Coming of Augustine; IV. The Revival from the North; V. Theodore and Wilfrid; VI. The Times of the Danes; VII. The Danes and the Anglo-Saxons; VIII. The Church Under Norman Influences; IX. Church and State Conflicts; X Anselm and Becket; XI. Henry II and Becket. XII. Struggles for Constitutional Freedom; XIII. The National Revival; XIV. The Awakening of England; XV. The Period of Struggle; XVI. Darkness and Dawn; XVIII. Henry VIII and the Reformation; XVIII. The Struggle for Supremacy; XIX. Reform and Reaction; XX. Elizabeth; XXI. Through Conflict to Victory; XXII. James I. XXIII. Plots and Struggles; XXIV. Charles I.; XXV. The Rise of the Commonwealth; XXVI. The Restoration; XXVII. James II; XXVIII. William and Mary; XXIX. Queen Anne; XXX. George I and George II. XXXI. The Religious Revival. XXXII. Philanthropy follows Religion; XXXIII. The Beginnings of the Century; XXXIV. The Oxford Movement. XXXV. The Social Philanthropy. XXXVI. From the Gorham Case to the Vatican Council; XXXVII. Liberal Thought on Trial; XXXVIII. Eucharistic and Ritual Controversies; XXXIX. Public Progress; XL. Some Last Words: Past, Present, Future; Index. ***First impression of the true first edition, profusely illustrated, in complete original condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. …