Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
by Strachey, Lytton
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good + +/No Jacket
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. Book. Very Good + +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. (10) 287 (1) pp, illus. First Printing, 1928. Owner's ex libris plate on front paste down. Very light external wear. Light fox streaks to text foreedge, occasional fox spot to orefatory pp, No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6" x 9". Brown cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine, and brown top text block..
Synopsis
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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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9491
- Title
- Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
- Author
- Strachey, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good + +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- BRITISH HISTORY 16TH-CENTURY ENGLAND BIOGRAPHY ISTORY AND CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- BRITISH HISTORY;
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