Author: Harrison, William & Edelen, Georges [editor]
Title: The Description Of England - The Classic Contemporary Account Of Tudor Social Life
Description: Dover Publications, New York, 1994, 2nd edition. Paperback, VG. xxxvi+512pp+12pp publishers catalogue, b/w frontis, index, edges rubbed & wrappers a little tanned. Paperback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 0486282759 ¶ Facsimile reprint of the 1968 Folger edition. The text was originally written as part of the introduction to a 1577 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, Harrison's Descrition provides an account of life in Shakespeare's England. William Harrison [ 1535 - 1593 ] English clergyman who produced this work by gathering his information from books, letters, maps, the notes of John Leland, and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends John Stow and William Camden.

Keywords: ISBN 0486282759, tudor history, english history 0486282759