Author: RUNCIMAN Steven
Title: A History of the Crusades. NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Description: Folio Society,, 1994 [1998]. 3 vols., 8vo., with coloured frontispieces, numerous coloured plates, and many maps in the text; oatmeal boards, upper boards and backstrips elaborately blocked in gilt and blue, patterned endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's printed board slip-case, the case with two short splits at edges. The set comprises: Vol. I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1951); Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187 (1952); Vol. III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades (1954).

Keywords: folio society, crusades, middle east, religion, christianity, saladin, saracens, runciman, steven runciman


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