The Commonwealth of Lincoln College, 1427 - 1977

746pp, numerous monochrome plate illustrations, illustrated endpapers. In deep blue cloth boards with gilt lettering (boards very slightly rounded at spine tips, one small white mark on front board). Internally neat, clean and bright, barring a previous owner's gift inscription on the half-title page. In its original, illustrated, dust jacket (price clipped, very gently bumped at edges). A full length study of the history, development and influence of Lincoln College, Oxford. It tells of the origins and growth of the College, and how, over five centuries, it has been involved in national crises and problem as well as a part of the wider University of Oxford; and of the decline of scholasticism, the impact of the Protestant Reformation, the effects of the Civil War and finally in university reform and revival in the 19th and 20th centuries. Large 8vo. .