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The Complete Peerage (Hardcover)

by G.E. Cokayne (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 2824 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)
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars For lovers of British History: A MUST, 22 Dec 2003
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This review is from: The Complete Peerage: Addenda and Corrigenda v. 14 (Hardcover)
maybe that sounds a bit silly to say this about "The Complete Peerage" as it is not even a book which you read in the strictest sense. Well, nevertheless it is for me: I was a student at the London School of Economics and Political Science when I first saw and used the 14 heavy volumes of the "The Complete Peerage". I always wanted to have them myself but first it is difficult to get hold of them and secondly even if you get hold of them they are just "dam" expensive. Well, the reprint in this concise version is the ideal solution for both problems. It is very nicely done and even compressed extremely readable (saying it just in case you get worried that is might be too small). If you are interested in British history, the peerage and genealogy this is the one book you want to have. Here one finds all the necessary information on titles and families. Well, I cannot judge whether there is an occasional error but I suppose one cannot do better in just one go having all the information. At least I could not resist to order the last volume on the newly created peers. I am looking forward to check my private files collected over a long period of time and compare them with the information given in the "The Complete Peerage". I could not resist to order the last volume on the newly created peers. Just a wonderful piece of work!!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A vital reference for British history, 16 April 2001
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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A fine supplement to an essential reference book, 13 Feb 2001
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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