The Age of Charles I by Mathew, David - 1951

Eyre & Spottiswode, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1951. First Edition. 340 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Small ink mark on top outer corner of front endpaper; rear board has some limited fading on bottom edge; d/w has some loss on rear cover; some tanning to top & fore edge

Eyre & Spottiswode, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1951. First Published. 340 pages. Red dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing and wear marks overall.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Reprint. xvii, 327pp+ index. Prelims foxed, else a very good hardback in a lightly edgeworn jacket.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951. Cloth. G to Vg/G to Vg. Bound in purple cloth with DW, 8 illustrations.340pp. The influence of Charles I and his Queen and the particular quality of the civilization represented at the Stuart Court are seen against the background of the surviving Elizabethan character of much of rural England. As part of this study the contacts with the Continent and the knowledge that Englishmen possessed of foreign countries are assessed. The book contains a close analysis of English puritanism and also of the Caroline church order.Ex-library with small round library stamp on front endpaper.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Reprint. Jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. Bookplate on front endpaper. 1951 Hard Cover. xvii, 19-340 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates. Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649)[a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1612 upon the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to Infanta Maria Anna of Spain culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiation. Two years later, shortly after his… Read More

London.: Eyre & Spottiswoode., 1952. 340pp, illustrations. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Octavo. 340pp. Illustrated. Fine in modestly rubbed, else near fine dustwrapper.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 340pp. Illustrated. Small bookseller ticket on rear pastedown, pages lightly toned, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper.

Eyre & Spottiswode, London, 1951. First edition, hardback orig maroon cloth 8vo, 340pp,with b/w fontispiece of Charle I,no dj,spine fading and 2 signatures to fep but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.