The Gunpowder Plot: terror & faith in 1605 / Antonia Fraser
1996, 1st edition. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. SIGNED. Price clipped. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Item #312600
ISBN: 029781348X
Physical description: xxxv, 347 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: List of illustrations -- Family trees -- Map of the conspirators in the Midlands -- Author's note -- Prologue. Bountiful beginnings -- pt. one. Before the fruit was ripe. Whose head for the crown? ; The honest papists; Diversity of opinions -- pt. two. The horse of St. George. A king and his cubs; Spanish charity; Catesby as Phaeton -- pt. three. That furious and fiery course. So sharpe a remedy; Pernicious gunpowder; There is a risk ...; Dark and doubtful letter -- pt. four. Discovery -- by God or the devil. Mr Fawkes is taken; The gentler tortures; Fire and brimstone; These wretches -- pt. five. The shadow of death. The heart of a traitor; The Jesuits' treason; Farewells; Satan's policy? Subjects: James I 1566-1625 King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Gunpowder Plot, 1605. Conspiracies England. Catholics England History 17th century. England. Genre: History.
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