Levi FoxThe Borough Town of Stratford-upon-AvonPublisher information:Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1953, first edition Description and condition: Red cloth hardback with gilt town arms to front panel, dustcover, 8vo, 168 pp., index, b/w illustrations.
Very good with nice clean pages throughout, spine is lightly faded. In good, clipped, dustcover, now protected. Contents: 'This book is altogether different from the many guide-book publications on Stratford-upon-Avon. Not only does it trace the development of the Warwickshire market town which produced the genius of William Shakespeare: it is at once an authoritative history of one of England's self-governing boroughs and a commentary on English local community life for more than a thousand years.'
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