- Hardcover: 2850 pages
- Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd; New edition edition (April 1982)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0904387828
- ISBN-13: 978-0904387827
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,399,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Comprising a full historical and genealogical account of all peerages created in England, Scotland and Ireland between the Conquest and the early 20th century, the text includes details of every peer's birth, parents, honours, offices, marriage, death and burial. Footnotes include additional detail, dealing with individual's wills, incomes, royal charters, rent rolls, illegitimate children, romances, treasons, public achievements, works of art and works of literature. Firts published in eight volumes between 1887 and 1898, the work was replaced between 1910 and 1959 by a new edition in 13 volumes. This new edition is printed in a more manageable, four-page to view, six-volume set. Although compressed, there is no need for a magnifying glass
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A vital reference for British history,
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This review is from: The Complete Peerage (Hardcover)
The Complete Peerage is a listing of titles of nobility and their holders from Norman times to the twentieth century (a continuation - Addenda and Corrigenda - to 1995 is also available from amazon.co.uk). The current edition - printing four pages on one to compress the full work into six convenient volumes - is, next to the DNB, the most important reference for British history, and its re-entry into print is long overdue! The information is as accurate as available, and the footnotes are a delight (though the authors follow Dr. Johnson's alleged rule of never giving the Whig dogs the best of it - William III and Home Rule set them foaming at the mouth!) If you are at all interested in British history, get the Complete Peerage...
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A fine supplement to an essential reference book,
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This review is from: The Complete Peerage: Addenda and Corrigenda v. 14 (Hardcover)
The Complete Peerage (until recently out-of-print, regrettably!) is THE reference for those wanting nuts-and-bolts data on the British peerage - an essential component of British history. This supplement (by historian Peter Hammond) corrects errors in the original (especially in the light of recent scholarship) and continues the extant peerage to 1995, as well as including post-1938 creations. There are mistakes (the Margadale peerage - the last pre-Thatcher hereditary creation - is somehow omitted) but few. This is a fine book, and should appeal to the professional scholar and the amateur lover of British history.
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Complete satisfaction with Complete Peerage!,
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This review is from: The Complete Peerage: Addenda and Corrigenda v. 14 (Hardcover)
This book was described merely as in 'acceptable' condition but was in fact in what I would describe as good to very good. Dispatch was fast and postage excellent. A useful addition to our office library.
Many thanks Richard
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