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History of England
Froude, James Anthony · London
- Author
- Froude, James Anthony
- Date
- c.1870
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo. Beautifully bound by Bickers and Son for the Sherborn School (with their crests and motto in gilt to front and rear boards) in full polished tan calf, gilt, marbled page-ends and endpapers.
- Format
- Lengthy index at rear of volume XII. Book plate of Hugh et Antonia Fraser. Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser; born 27 August 1932, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter. On 22 October 1975, Hugh and Antonia Fraser, together with Caroline Kennedy, who was visiting them at their Holland Park home, in Kensington, west London, were almost blown up by an IRA car bomb placed under the wheels of his Jaguar, which had been triggered to go off at 9 am when he left the house; the bomb exploded, killing the cancer researcher, Gordon Hamilton Fairley. Fairley, a neighbour of the Frasers, had been walking his dog, when he noticed something amiss and stopped to examine the bomb.
- Category
- History & Americana
- Record
- S.I.3557
8vo. Beautifully bound by Bickers and Son for the Sherborn School (with their crests and motto in gilt to front and rear boards) in full polished tan calf, gilt, marbled page-ends and endpapers. Froude, James Anthony. c1870. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Lengthy index at rear of volume XII. Book plate of Hugh et Antonia Fraser. Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser; born 27 August 1932, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter. On 22 October 1975, Hugh and Antonia Fraser, together with Caroline Kennedy, who was visiting them at their Holland Park home, in Kensington, west London, were almost blown up by an IRA car bomb placed under the wheels of his Jaguar, which had been triggered to go off at 9 am when he left the house; the bomb exploded, killing the cancer researcher, Gordon Hamilton Fairley. Fairley, a neighbour of the Frasers, had been walking his dog, when he noticed something amiss and stopped to examine the bomb.
Froude’s major twelve-volume history of England, covering the Tudor period and English Reformation. This complete set is especially notable for its fine Bickers and Son bindings, Sherborne School gilt crests, and the bookplates of Hugh and Antonia Fraser.
Condition
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