GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY: Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,montage'd monochrome illustrated dw/dj,with white+yellow(?) lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly dust-soiled with minimal, faint spotting,fore-edges brighter and cleaner without marks; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked white ink letters to spine/backstrip,a brown headband, and immaculate plain brown endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xvipp+1-271pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,b/w map of England (1387- 1688), genealogical trees for Houses of York,Lancaster and Tudor,similar tree for England's Tudor and Stuart monarchs with b/w map of England and North-West Europe (1387- 1688),an introduction,50+ excerpts,a bibliography,acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a dedication.
This volume of Robert Lacey's 'Great Tales From English History' opens with Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tale' and the flowering of the modern English language in the final years of the 14thC.It culminates with the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9,when Parliament secured tighter control of the Crown for which it had fought forty years earlier in the battles of the Civil War.
The centuries in between witnessed some of the truly classic stories of English history: Dick Whittington and his elusive cat; an account of the Battle of Agincourt,in which we learn the origins of the V-sign,the notorious 'Agincourt salute'; Joan of Arc; The Wars of the Roses; William Caxton,whose first printed edition of Chaucer became the most expensive book ever sold - six centuries later; and the tragic tale of the Princes in the Tower.
The Tudor dynasty followed: Henry VIII and the dissolution of the Monastries; his daughter Elizabeth and the defeat of the Spanish Armada; Mary Queen of Scots and her Stuart legacy,which,by way of Guy Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell,Charles II and the Great Fire of London,led to the reign of William and Mary.
With his genius for the popular touch,Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date (then 2004) research to present a riveting,ongoing narrative,highlighting all the most pivotal, entertaining and exciting landmarks in the history of our nation.
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