Author: Houghton, Bryan,
Title: SAINT EDMUND - KING AND MARTYR.
Description: Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1970, 1st edn., 92pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., plans at endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured puctorial dustwrapper, the story of St. Edmund, the Patron of England until supplanted by St. George, tracing his youth in Saxony, landing near Hunstanton, coronation as King of East Anglia at Bures, his resistance to Viking raids but with no adequate defence against a full scale Danish invasion which culminated in the Battle of Thetford and his martyrdom at Hellesdon near Norwich, by the Catholic priest for fifteen years of parish of Bury St. Edmunds, edges stanned, i three line ink inscr. verso half title, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems. with some overall slight surface abrasion, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: topography britain england east anglia suffolk bury st. edmunds edmund


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