Author: Varley:
Title: The Siege of Oxford.
Description: Oxford Hard cover blue cloth bds, gilt decoration to upper bd, faded gilt titles to spine, a little faded, skewed at spine, dusty, lib. no. to spine in gilt, a little wear to spine ends, no dust jacket, lib. label to front pastedown, b/w frontis., title pge missing, six b/w plates two of which are loose but present, fold-out sketch map showing garrisons and forts round Oxford 1642-1646, and a plan of Oxford 1797 to rear - this plan and the last 5 pges (part of the Index) of the book have some ancient insect damage, contents sound and tight, light cup ring to pge 3, pp179 + fold out plan, lib. label to rear pastedown. A scarce title.

Keywords: siege Oxford history Civil War King Charles Fairfax surrender King's head garrison military problems defence annals university colleges college plate mint Oxford parliament law courts governors castle


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