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Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
por Lytton Strachey
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom
- Livreiro
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. An illustrated first edition copy of this work which chronicles the relationship of Elizabeth and Robert Devereux. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and five additional plates. Collated complete. A retelling of Queen Elizabeth I's tempestuous relationship with Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex, which greatly influenced the latter part of her reign, and resulted in Essex's execution in 1601. Written by Lytton Strachey, an English writer and critic. Known as a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and minor bumping to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Contemporary ink inscription to front endpaper. Very Good
Sinopse
One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of brilliant scenes, Strachey portrays the Queen's and the Earl's compelling attraction for on another, their impassioned disagreements, and their mutual contest for power, which led to a final, tragic confrontation. Here we also have superb portraits of influential people of the time: Francis Bacon, Robert Cecil, Walter Raleigh, and other figures of the court who struggled to assert themselves in a kingdom that was primarily defined by her sovereign, and so now seen through history's lens as Elizabethan England.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 848T1
- Título
- Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
- Autor
- Lytton Strachey
- Ilustrador
- None
- Formato/Encadernação
- Cloth
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First edition
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1928
- Dimensão
- 9" by 6"
- Palavras-chave
- Elizabeth Essex Strachey Essex
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Sobre o Vendedor
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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