Author: Fletcher, C R L
Title: Historical Portraits : Richard II To Henry Wriothesley 1400 - 1600
Description: Oxford University Press, 1909, 1st edition. Buckram, G. xxiv+199pp, 63pp b/w plates, cloth rather rubbed, lightly foxed to a few pages, Ex Public School library with a bookplate on the pastedown, accession numbers to the spine, a good working copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A collection of portraits, taken from old masters, of 103 leading men & a few women of 15th 16th century Britain, with each person given a brief biography. Those appearing are mainly either Royal, Religious or Aristocratic. Taken as a collection the images show the fashions & prefered portrait style of the age.

Keywords: art, biography, history, science, politics