Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
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First published 1950
Reprinted 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961
Reprinted with revised bibliography 1963
Reprinted 1964, 1965
Copyright © J. H. Plumb, 1950
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Hunt, Barnard & Co. Ltd,
Aylesbury
Set in Monotype Baskerville
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