Author: FALKUS, CHRISTOPHER
Title: The Life and Times of Charles II
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. Hardcover. A biography of Charles II (1630-1685), who served as King of Scotland, and later as King of England, Scotland and Ireland following the Restoration in 1660. Despite lacking significant accomplishments during his reigns, Charles was a very popular monarch, especially with common citizens. With 16 pages of color plates and 100 illustrations in black & white. Includes an introduction by general editor Antonia Fraser. --- In full purple cloth-covered boards with cover coat of arms portion and spine titling, both in gilt. Dust jacket with Jansenss painting of Charles dancing to front panel. --- With some light sunning to cloth and inked gift inscription to front endpaper, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Dust jacket with unclipped $10 flap price, minor chafing and creasing to edges but overall intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; 223 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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