Battle Abbey Under Thirty-Nine Kings: Legends and Records
London: The Saint Catherine Press, [1937]. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, tan & illus. dust jacket in mylar cover, 180 pp., 41 BW illus. G- (DJ is moderately aged beneath the mylar; some instances of foxing appear oni page edges; carried bookplate from a previous owner; pages have aged consistently overall.). Item #150819
"No spot in England has been more closely woven into the texture of her civilisation than Battle Abbey [in the town of Battle, East Sussex, England]. Built by William the Conqueror 'on the historic field of Senlac ... to the Honour and Glory of God for giving him the Victory over the English'; growing in visible beauty, through many generations, during the time of the habitation of the monks; robbed of its sublime glory, the great church, at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and passing into the hands of prviate owners, nevertheless the Abbey still stands to-day a habitation dignified and beautiful, watching the birth and passing of many generations, the making of history through hundreds of years." (preface).
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