Author: SCOTT, SIR WALTER
Title: Kenilworth
Description: New York: Heritage Press, 1966. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Clarke Hutton. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on red panel on spine, gilt medallion on cover, gilt slipcase. Illustrated with B&W engravings by Clarke Hutton. Heritage Club Sandglass (VI:33) laid in. In the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all the noblemen of England. It is rumoured that the Queen may chose him for her husband, but Leicester has secretly married the beautiful Amy Robsart. Fearing ruin if this were known, he keeps his lovely young wife a virtual prisoner in an old country house. Meanwhile Leicester's manservant Varney has sinister designs on Amy, and enlists an alchemist to help him further his evil ambitions. Brilliantly recreating the splendour and pageantry of Elizabethan England, with Shakespeare, Walter Ralegh and Elizabeth herself among its characters, Kenilworth (first published in 1821) is a compelling depiction of intrigue, power struggles and superstition in a bygone age.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The gilt slipcase shows only minor wear. FINE.. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xxiv), 542 pp. Fine with no dust jacket .

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