Wilson, Derek

THE KING AND THE GENTLEMAN: Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell 1599-1649.

Pp. [vi]+474(last blank), 16 plates, full page family trees, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper, faintly foxed on reverse; label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, top edges of leaves a trifle soiled and foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1999. First edition. *Published in the quartercentenary of Cromwell's birth and the three-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the death of King Charles. 'Parallels the lives of the foreign-born aesthete-prince and the down-to-earth representative of a struggling squirearchy' [wrapper blurb]. Item #179909

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