The History of the Great Rebellion

Written by a royalist statesman who served Charles I and later Charles II, and first published in the early eighteenth century, this history of the English Civil Wars runs from the disputes of the 1620s and 1630s through the fighting, the king's trial, the Commonwealth, and the Restoration. Clarendon offers long character portraits of courtiers, generals, and parliamentarians, and he argues the case for mixed monarchy against what he saw as rebellion. Campaigns, treaties, and faction at court and at Westminster occupy the narrative. The book is a participant's political history, not a collection of battle plans.

Bound in dark blue buckram with a design in gold. Blue-grey endleaves. Grey slipcase.