FEUDAL ENGLAND - HISTORICAL STUDIES ON THE XITH AND XIITH CENTURIES

Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd., London, January 1909, reissue of first edition, June, 1895.  Hard cover, 587 pages including Addenda and Index.  Brown cloth with blind rules at top and bottom of front board; gilt lettering and rules on spine.  Some edge, corner and spine wear; binding cracked in areas with all pages secure.  No jacket.  Dark blue/green paste-downs and end papers; gift inscription at top of title page, remainder of interior clean and unmarked; pages browning; some small tears/losses to a few page edges from pages being cut, some pages are still uncut; fore and bottom edges rough cut; fold-out table present.  ‘The present work is the outcome of a wish expressed to me from more than one quarter that I would reprint in a collected form, for the convenience of historical students, some more results of my researches in the history of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. But to these I have added, especially on Domesday, so much which has not yet seen the light, that the greater portion of the work is new, while the rest has been in part re-written. The object I have set before myself throughout is either to add to or correct our existing knowledge of facts. And for this I have gone in the main to records, whether in manuscript or in print. It is my hope that the papers in this volume may further illustrate the value of such evidence as supplementing and checking the chroniclers for what is still, in many respects, an obscure period of our history.’ (from Preface)