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Power, Eileen.
Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge;
Date of Publication: 1922
Stock Code: 10045
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp., xiv, [2], 724, [2]. With 8 monochrome plates including frontispiece; vignette to title-page; folding map of English Nunneries in the Later Middle Ages to rear. Publishers’ purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and fillet in blind to upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips and corners slightly rubbed; cloth clean and bright. Scattered light foxing otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly soiled with nicks & creases, and minor loss top edge;, spine toned and a little stained with small loss at tips. A very good copy in a good jacket. Comprehensive study of the lives of nuns in England including the structure, finances, education and routines in the convents: the standard work on the subject. The 1922 first printing is scarce, especially so in the fragile dust-jacket. £85.00