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E. L. S.
Belt and Spur: Stories of the Knights of the Middle Ages from the Old Chronicles.
Publisher: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, London;
Date of Publication: 1883
Stock Code: 8730
Octavo, pp., xii, 298. With 16 illustrations in colour including frontispiece. Full polished calf by Bickers & Son, with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to black label to spine, gilt decoration to compartments, double gilt border to boards and gilt crest of St George’s College, Harrogate to upper board. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Edges a little rubbed; unobtrusive slight staining top edge. Pictorial bookplate to front paste-down; inscription to verso of the front free endpaper: “William H Davenport Mathematical Prize 2nd Class July 84”; a little scattered light foxing. An attractive copy. Tales of heroes such as Harry Hotspur and Fulk FitzWarine, from the period of the Norman Conquest to the reign of Edward IV. £45.00