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299:"David Carpenter, ed. and trans., Magna Carta. New York: Penguin Classics, 2015. Paper. Pp. 624. $ 17.50. ISBN: 978-0-241953372.J. C. Holt, Magna Carta . 3rd ed., ed. George Garnett and John Hudson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Paper. Pp. xxii, 462; 11 black-and-white figures. $ 34.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-47157-3.David Starkey, Magna Carta: The True Story behind the Charter . London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2015. Pp. 285; 27 color and 14 black-and-white figures. ÂŁ18.99. ISBN: 978-1-473-61005-7"
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