Author: ERLANGER, PHILIPPE
Title: The Age of Courts and Kings - Manners and Morals 1558-1715
Description: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1967, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blacke title on red boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked with age toning to edges else near Fine. Dustjacket is age darkened with $2 written to reverse and is not price clipped. Fisrt Edition, First Printing. 308 pages. Illustrated endpapers. 150 illustrations. European life and manners from the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the death of Louis XIV are penetratingly analysed in this book by the distinguished French historian. This was an age in which the amours and intrigues of the courts, the miseries of the peasants and the vicious brutality of the soldiery lay behind many of the most telling political events. The contemporary sources drawn on in the text and for the vivid illustrations add a new dimension to the history of the period. D4E. Very Good/Very Good.

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