Author: H.P.R. Finberg Edited A.E.Hudd C.S.Taylor G.Baskerville E.A.L.Moir
Title: Richard Ameryk and the Name America Gloucestershire Studies
Description: England, Leicester University Press, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Very Good+ Hardcover Very Good+ Dust Jacket NOT Price clipped. Clean pages NOT a library copy.Tan hardcover brown title patch with gilt titles on spine. Among the history essays are 'Richard Amercyk and the name America" by A.E.Hudd compelling study on west country Bristol being the origin for pre-Columbian British Activity and the naming of America based on Cabot and port master Richard Amercyk. Also "The Origin of the Mercian Shires" by C.S. Taylor author of "St. Michael's Mount." Here shows, for Tolkien fans the origin of the Saxon word "Shire". Also dark age Saxon and Viking Mercia. Much more in this handsome book of early Gloucestershire. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. Very Good/Fine.

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