STRICKLAND, Agnes

Lives of the Queens of England,

Name: Lives of the Queens of England,
Brand: STRICKLAND, Agnes
SKU: 122975
Price: 750.00 GBP
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from the Norman Conquest; with Anecdotes of their Courts, now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. New edition, with corrections and additions.

Stock Code 122975

London, Henry Colburn, 1844.

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Miss Strickland's fame as author and historian rests on the 'Lives of the Queens of England,' which was the joint work of herself and her sister Elizabeth. The popularity of her books is in great measure due to their trivial gossip and domestic details. Yet in her extracts from contemporary authorities she amassed much valuable material, and her works contain pictures of the court, of society, and of domestic life not to be found elsewhere. (ODNB)

12 vols, 8vo (20 x 13 cm); 12 portrait frontispieces, additional engraved title with vignettes; nineteenth-century half green morocco, spines lettered in gilt in six gilt compartments, top edges gilt, lightly rubbed, a fine set.

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