First edition, first impression. xxxii, 248pp, with maps and figures in text. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine ends. Hint of offset toning on front endpaper else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original faded dust wrapper, lightly bumped on extreme edges and sunned over spine.
Volume 1B in the Oxford History of England series, replacing Myres' own section in the earlier Roman Britain and the English Settlements, extensively updated and enlarged. A masterful account of the Dark Ages in the light of evidence from literary sources, the relevant archaeological remains both in England and on the Continent, and place-names and other linguistic developments. Myres illuminates little-understood factors which seem to link Roman Britain with Anglo-Saxon England, suggesting strands of political and social continuity which assist understanding of this complex and traumatic period of our history.
