Author: Carew, Richard; Halliday, F.E. (Ed.)
Title: Richard Carew of Antony. The Survey of Cornwall
Description: Augustus M. Kelley 1969 334, portrait frontis, 10 maps. . HB. Vg in d/w. Name to endpaper.. Edited, with an Introduction by F.E. Halliday. With the maps of John Norden. US edition (first published by Andrew Melrose, London, 1953). Richard Carew (1555-1620) was a British antiquary and translator. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in the 1580s, and wrote The Survey of Cornwall (1602), a topographical and cultural survey, and only the second county history published in England. Included here are other works by Carew: Godfrey of Bulloigne, a romantic epic poem translated from Tasso's Italian version; two essays: The Examination of Men's Whits and The Excellencie of the English Tongue; also A Herring's Tail, an amusing 'poeticall fiction'.. [9780678075043]
Keywords: Cornwall; England; Britain
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Title: Richard Carew of Antony. The Survey of Cornwall
Description: Augustus M. Kelley 1969 334, portrait frontis, 10 maps. . HB. Vg in d/w. Name to endpaper.. Edited, with an Introduction by F.E. Halliday. With the maps of John Norden. US edition (first published by Andrew Melrose, London, 1953). Richard Carew (1555-1620) was a British antiquary and translator. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in the 1580s, and wrote The Survey of Cornwall (1602), a topographical and cultural survey, and only the second county history published in England. Included here are other works by Carew: Godfrey of Bulloigne, a romantic epic poem translated from Tasso's Italian version; two essays: The Examination of Men's Whits and The Excellencie of the English Tongue; also A Herring's Tail, an amusing 'poeticall fiction'.. [9780678075043]
Keywords: Cornwall; England; Britain
Price: GBP 25.00 = appr. US$ 35.70 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: S57864
- Book number: S57864
See more books from our catalog: Other Subjects,Geography