The Private Lives of the Tudor Monarchs

This anthology assembles short contemporary documents about the Tudor sovereigns from Henry VII through Elizabeth I, including Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary I. Extracts include household accounts, letters, diary notes, and other first-hand records that show spending, pastimes, marriages, and tempers rather than acts of state alone. Brief editorial links identify each reign. There is no single narrator. The book is a documentary sampler of royal domestic and personal life, not a continuous political history of the dynasty and not a novel of court intrigue.

Quarter bound in cream vegetable parchment decorated with gold pattern front and back, dark red linen boards. Dark green or blue textured slipcase although the first impression was issued with only glassine dust-jackets. The Presentation Volume for 1975.