Price: £50
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: [2019]
Stock Number: 73050
(Your basket is currently empty)Ten Contemporary Descriptions. Edited by Peter Spring.
Description: 12/55 COPIES printed on Fedrigoni laid paper, colour-printed portrait of the Queen by Nicholas Hilliard as frontispiece, pp. ix, 138, royal 8vo, original half red cloth with sides of marbled paper by Jemma Lewis, backstrip with printed label, finePublication Details: Naples: The Stella Press, [2019]
Notes: 'Of the ten contemporary descriptions of Elizabeth presented in this book one is Edwardian, one Marian, five Elizabethan, two Jacobean, and one Caroline. They cover the better part of her life (1533-1603) and the whole of her reign (1558-1603). From a review of them all we can form a distinct idea of her appearance, character, principles, tastes, moral and political intelligence' (Publisher's website). The accounts include those of Roger Ascham and Francis Bacon, as well as the impressions of Italian, German and French visitors....more
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