Description

Hardcover, dark blue cloth in publisher’s dust-jacket. 367 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. With black and white illustrations of woodcuts, title-pages, maps, etc. First edition, first printing with full number line. An ambitious and far reaching account of how the written word was mobilized in 16th and 17th century England, among many different and diverse genres, to create a sense of polity heretofore unknown but which laid the ground-work for the concept of nationhood that rose to empire. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Dust-jacket has small tear to top of rear panel, now tape repaired on verso. A fine copy in a very good dust-jacket.