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Bessborough, The Earl of A Place in the Forest - Being the Story of Stansted in Sussex
London B. T. Batsford 1958 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
Gold title on black boards which have some fading to top and to base of spine. Internally there is some light foxing to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some chipping and a little wear. Stansted has been a hunting lodge since medieval times and the book tells of the visits of Henry II, Richard Lionheart and King John, of the d;Aubigny and Fitzalan Earls of Arundel who lived there for 500 years, of Queen Elizabeth and Charles II, the Lumleys and the Earls of Scarborough who built the first house on the present site. There are accounts of the second Earl of Halifax and his mistress, a singer from Drury Lane, of the extraordinary Indian Nabob and his riches, of the famous converter of the Jews, Lewis Way, and his strange chapel which inspired the poet Keats. Packed with history and enlivened by delightful illustrations.
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5.00 GBP
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