Author: David C. Douglas
Title: David Douglas Miscellanea
Description: Various, Various, 1928-52. Leather. An exciting collection of articles by David C. Douglas in two miscellaneous volumes from the author's personal library. A collection of twenty-one historical articles by David C. Douglas, bound in two uniform volumes in full morocco, bearing the author's bookplate to front pastedowns. Volume I measures 8.5" by 5.5" while vol. II measures 10" by 7.5".Each signed by the author to front free endpaper, with title inscribed 'Miscellanea I' and 'Miscellanea II.' This is followed by a hand-written Contents list of all the articles included in each volume in the author's hand. Featuring the original wraps bound in with the volumes where possible. Containing the following pieces:Vol. I: I. The Norman Conquest (Historical Association Leaflet No. 73), 1928; II. The Development of English Medieval Scholarship between 1660 and 1730, 1938 (from Transactions of the Royal Historical Society); III. A Prospectus with Proceedings at the Mass Public Demonstration at the Central Hall, Westminster on Wednesday, January 24th 1945: Manifesto, Rules, Organisation (Society of Individualists), 1945; IV. Companions of the Conquerors (from History: The Quarterly Journal of the Historical Association); V. The Norman Conquest and British Historians, 1946; VI. The Crisis of Liberty (Liberty Library, No. 34) 1949; VII. Medieval Paris (from Golden Age of the Great Cities), 1952.Vol. II: I. Fragments of an Anglo-Saxon Survey from Bury St. Edmunds, 1928; II. Some Early Surveys from the Abbey of Abbey of Abingdon (reprinted from The English Historical Review) 1929; III. Odo, Lanfranc and the Domesday Survey (from Historical Essays in Honour of James Tait), 1933; IV. William Dugdale: The Grand Plagiary (from History), 1935; V. The Domesday Survey (from History), 1936; VI. The Importance of Medieval Studies in the Teaching of History (from History), 1938; VII. The Norman Conquest and English Feudalism (from The Economic History Review), 1939; VIII. Rollo of Normandy (from English Historical Review), 1942; IX. The Ancestors of William Fitz Osbern (from English Historical Review), 1944; X. The Norman Conquest (from New English Review), 1945; XI. The Earliest Norman Counts (English Historical Review), 1946; XII. Why Read History? (New English Review); XIII The Rise of Normandy, (Raleigh Lecture on History), 1947; XIV. Some Problems of early Norman chronology (from English Historical Review), 1950. David C Douglas was an English historian specialising in Norman period at the University of Cambridge and Oxford, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1939. In uniform full morocco bindings, with five raised bands, titles in gilt to spine. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, minor rubbing to extremities of spine and boards. David Douglas bookplate to front pastedowns, inscribed in ink by the author with titles to front free endpaper and contents list to front blank leaves, as well as the occasional small gift inscription to odd title pages or stiff wraps bound in with the volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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