Sir Francis Walsingham: a courtier in an age of terror
2007, 1st Edition. New York: Carroll & Graf. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #348800
ISBN: 0786720875
Physical description: 274 pages. Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: August 1572, Death in Paris; 1 Background and Beginnings, 1532-53; 2 Travel and Travail, 1553-8; 3 'The Malice of This Present Time', 1558-69; 4 'In Truth a Very Wise Person', 1569-73; 5 'To Govern that Noble Ship', England, 1574-80; 6 'God Open Her Majesty's Eyes': Foreign Affairs, 1578-80; 7 'She Seemeth to be Very Earnestly Bent to Proceed', 1581-4; 8 'Be You All Stout and Resolute', 1584-8; 9 No Tomb, 1587-90; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Subjects: Walsingham, Francis, -- Sir, -- 1530?-1590. Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Espionage, British -- History -- 16th century.
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Biography.
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