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Hinde's Courtiers: 900 Years of English Court Life
by Hinde, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0575037679
- ISBN 13
- 9780575037670
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1986* Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No wear to edges or to head and tail of spine. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a portrait of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, gilt, pink and white titles to face with gilt & white titles to spine. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: 15 x plates at frontis & within text throughout.* Pages: 219 pp. text. i pp., blank page at rear.* Description: A fascinating look at the odd and wonderful characters of those characters who have featured so prominently in English court life over the last 900 years. From Eudo, Chief Steward of William the Conqueror, to Frederick Ponsonby, George V's Keeper of the Privy Purse, from Nell Gwynn to Fanny Burney, Chaucer to Raleigh. Here is a galaxy of odd and wonderful characters: sycophants and time-servers, royal lovers and intriguers, Chief Sewers and Grooms of the Stole.* A FINE text copy of the 1st/1st in a VG++ protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1579
- Title
- Hinde's Courtiers: 900 Years of English Court Life
- Author
- Hinde, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0575037679
- ISBN 13
- 9780575037670
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London UK 220
- Date Published
- 1986-10-30
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