Author: EDWARDS, A.C.
Title: John Petre. Essays on the Life and Background of John, 1st Lord Petre, 1549-1613.
Description: London: Regency Press, 1975. 1st edition. "John Petre became an Elizabethan knight and died a Jacobean peer. This book uses the family archives to illustrate his various backgrounds - as a young man at the Middle Temple during the last years of his father, Sir William Petre, the Tudor statesman; as a county magnate ruling over vast estates and assiduously carrying out his public duties; as an aristocratic man-about-town who enjoyed the delights of Court and the London season." Pp.147/9(index), 4 black & white illustrations. Light blue laminated boards with black & white portrait illustrations to front and rear board. VG.

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