First edition, first impression. 108pp, with colour illustrations. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on backstrip. Green endpapers. 8vo. Volume is neat. clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, gently rubbed on corners with a short closed tear at the spine head, very slightly bumped on extreme edges.
An examination of land and landownership in England from the 10th century onwards describing the role of the Church, the civil war period and its aftermath and a particularly interesting exploration of how in the 18th and 19th centuries land and power came to be concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy families.
