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ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
by STRACHEY, Lytton
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine.
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York / London: Crosby Gaige / Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Near fine.. Black cloth spine, stamped in gilt, floral decorated boards. Frontispiece portrait and five full-page plates. Signed by Strachey on the verso of of the first tipped-in flyleaf, as was the convention. Bookplate of the Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury Group collector William Beekman affixed to front pastedown, small early New York bookshop label to the rear pastedown, else a very near fine, unmarked copy, without a dust jacket, as issued.
First, Limited edition, No. 384 of a total of 1060 numbered and signed copies, 1000 of which were made available for sale and distribution in America. Lytton Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, having asked for Virginia Woolf's hand in marriage - a bold move he instantly regretted. Woolf, then Virginia Stephen, accepted, to Strachey's horror, and he withdrew his proposal. Woolf graciously agreed to it, saying she was not in love with him. Strachey then urged his friend, Leonard Woolf, to marry Virginia and the rest is, literally, history.
First, Limited edition, No. 384 of a total of 1060 numbered and signed copies, 1000 of which were made available for sale and distribution in America. Lytton Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, having asked for Virginia Woolf's hand in marriage - a bold move he instantly regretted. Woolf, then Virginia Stephen, accepted, to Strachey's horror, and he withdrew his proposal. Woolf graciously agreed to it, saying she was not in love with him. Strachey then urged his friend, Leonard Woolf, to marry Virginia and the rest is, literally, history.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 291
- Title
- ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
- Author
- STRACHEY, Lytton
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Crosby Gaige / Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- New York / London
- Date Published
- 1928
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