Description and condition:

Blue cloth hardback, gilt decoration, 12mo, viii 270 pp, b/w illustrations, 2 maps.

Good copy, wear to spine ends, moderate soiling to outer covers, good clean pages. Lacks dustcover.

Contents:

The beginnings of the city; the growth and organization of the university; Medieval education at Oxford; a Medieval student's life; the civil war in Oxford; places of pilgrimage at Oxford; the collegiate system, and distinctive features of the earlier colleges, founded before 1400; distinctive features of the colleges founded after 1400; some Oxford stories.