Elizabeth I

This biography of Elizabeth I is built from the queen's own letters, speeches, prayers, and translations, set in a connecting narrative of her life from a threatened childhood under Henry VIII and the later Tudors to the long reign that followed 1558. Perry uses those documents to show how Elizabeth argued about marriage, religion, Mary Stuart, and war, and how she presented herself to parliaments and suitors. Court figures such as Robert Dudley appear as they do in her words. The book is a documentary life, not a novel and not a military history of the Armada.

Bound in quarter dark red cloth, cream vegetable parchment boards with Elizabeth's signature in gold. Purple-red endleaves patterned in gold. Purple-red slipcase patterned as the endleaves. Presentation volume.