Paston Letters: Original Letters, Written During the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III - Couverture rigide

Fenn Sir, John; Ramsay, A

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1356342957 ISBN 13 : 9781356342952

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Sir John Fenn, two volumes in 1787, and two others in 1789 ;together with a fifth, prepared by him for publication, but not published till 1823, many years after his death, by his nephew, William Frere, Master of Downing College, Cambridge. This last volume contains letters of the dates of Edward IV., Edward V., Richard III., and Henry VII. The letters in each publication are arranged in a separate chronological series, although many of them refer to the same periods. This edition is of course far too expensive for the great mass of readers; the cost of a copy is eight guineas, and it is troublesome to follow the proper order of succession under such an arrangement. This has occasioned the present attempt to make such valuable matter more accessible, by reprinting the volumes in a cheap form, and in a more regular order, abridging some of the letters which are either of little importance or repetitions of what is contained in others, or relating to uncontested and well-known historical events involving no matters of peculiar or personal interest; but wherever we have deemed it right to abridge or abstract we have in every case preserved as much of the original form and language as possible. In the original edition two forms of the letters are given, one an exact transcript of the letters themselves in the old and very variable and therefore difficult orthography; and the other, which we have followed, with the orthography modernised, but no liberty has been taken, without notice, of either the words or their arrangement. In a recent number of the Edinburgh Review, in an article reviewing Mr. Tytler swork England under the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary,1 in which were introduced many historical documents and private letters of the period, it was contended that such a work could not be popular, nor deserved to be so. The reviewer argued, that general readers c
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1356342957
• ISBN 13: 9781356342952
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible