Author: BYRNE, MURIEL ST. CLARE (EDITED BY)
Title: The Lisle Letters - an Abridgement
Description: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press. 1983, First. (ISBN: 0436079054). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 436 pages. The Lisle Papers are the correspondence received in Calais between 1533 and 1540 by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (c.1480-1542), Lord Deputy of Calais, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV and an uncle of King Henry VIII, and by his wife, Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (born Honor Grenville and formerly the wife of Sir John Bassett (d.1529) of Umberleigh in Devon), from several servants, courtiers, royal officials, friends, children and other relatives. They are an important source of information on domestic life in the Tudor age and of life at the court of Henry VIII. Although long available as transcriptions in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, they were first published as an annotated collection in 1981 as a six-volume edition, titled 'The Lisle Letters', and an abridged selection in one volume was published in 1983, both edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne. 13 PLEASE NOTE; A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST. As New/As New.

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