Domesday Book. A Complete Translation

Three tall 8vo volumes housed in a single slipcase, each with brown rexine-backed papered boards; spines lettered in gilt, vignette blocked in brown to upper board in each case; slipcase head and tail of brown rexine, sides show magnified script from original work, as do the endpapers of each book, pp. xiv + (ii) + 518, xiv + (ii) + [519-966], xiv + (ii) + [967-1430]; map in each volume. Fine condition.

A  tastefully produced edition of this landmark census. The first volume covers Kent to Herefordshire, the second, Cambridgeshire to Lincolnshire, and the third, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, along with an index of places. "Domesday Book is unique. A survey of England made in 1086-7, it is unmatched in its age, its scope and the consistent detail of its contents. It has been in official custody ever since it was made, and is celebrated now as the first of the public records and an endlessly rich source of historical material. Its name, 'Domesday', the book of the day of judgment, attests to the awe with which the work has always been regarded. The earliest names accorded to it, 'the King's book' and 'the great book of Winchester', where it was first kept, in the royal treasury, were displaced as early as the twelfth century by a title which recalled the wonder with which the subjugated English had seen their Norman lords called to deferential account."

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