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Alecto Historical Editions, London, 1987- 1990, first edition thus. Limited edition of 1000 sets. 3 vols, cloth-backed boards, 41 cm,. Facsimile volume + viii, 72 pp and translation + x, 179 pp. A beautifully produced set of three volumes comprising the County Edition of Domesday Book for Shropshire. Volume 1 ("Folios and Maps" comprises a high-quality colour facsimile of the original Shropshire section of Domesday Book (Folios 252-260), with a fold-out map of Domesday England and a large scale map of Shropshire which has Domesday sites plotted over the modern topography. Volume 2 is a new English translation structured so that each phrase and sentence is perfectly juxtaposed in precisely the same position on each page as the scribe's words. This volume includes a complete introduction to the Shropshire section of Domesday Book, as well as indexes of people and places. Volume 3: Domesday Studies, is the commentary volume on Domesday Book as a whole, telling the story of how and why… Leer más