edited muriel clare byrne foreword (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. MAGNIFICENT: First Edition (Orig. April 29, 2003) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW cover w/ SUPERB rose-orange linen wrapping spine & extending 2.12" onto front & back panels covered in SUPERB slate-blue linen w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles BEAUTIFULLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, EXQUSITE brown-lettering-on-tan card-stock end-papers handsomely -illustrated w/ "manuscript motif", NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & red-white-checked bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.76" x 9.50" x 1.50", 1.08 kg, xxvi+436 (462) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In a one-volume abridgment, these 16th-century letters paint a magnificent portrait of family life amidst the intrigue, terror, & politics of the court of Henry VIII, w/ Lord Lisle's imprisonment in the Tower of London as the culmination of this profoundly fascinating & deeply moving story. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983) worked for decades to create the six-volume edition of the sixteenth-century letters of Arthur Plantagenet, Lord Lisle. She was a lecturer at Oxford University, the University of London, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was the author or editor of several other books about sixteenth-century England, and also co-authored, with her friend Dorothy L Sayers, the play Busman's Honeymoon. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

HardBack. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Secker Warburg, London. 1983A very good copy in redblue cloth boards, signature endpapers, illustrated with bw plates and images within the text, has a very good dust jacket.