An essential study of Cecil and the Elizabethan court, especially with regard to the establishment of English international power and the defeat of the Armada. From the preface: "It was an ironical fate to achieve while living a flame of the very first magnitude, only to have it consistently debased by posterity: to be acknowledged by contemporaries as the virtual 'Ruler of England' throughout the period that was most decisive in the nation's development, then to be reduced in history to little more than a faithful flunkey; ...
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An essential study of Cecil and the Elizabethan court, especially with regard to the establishment of English international power and the defeat of the Armada. From the preface: "It was an ironical fate to achieve while living a flame of the very first magnitude, only to have it consistently debased by posterity: to be acknowledged by contemporaries as the virtual 'Ruler of England' throughout the period that was most decisive in the nation's development, then to be reduced in history to little more than a faithful flunkey; painstaking, astute, patriotic (if you will); but essentially a figure in the background; a minor character in the drama; a necessary but obscure adjunct."
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Very Good-in Good dust jacket. B&W Plates; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 276 pages; HC/DJ. 1st American edition. Soundly bound copy in original title lettered dust jacket. Binding just a little shslf cocked in the spine; moderate foxing to the several glossy illutrated plates and adjoning leaves with milder scattered foxing to other leaves. Mild shelf bump to page block front edge. VG-/G.
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Reader copy. Ex library hardback no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Boards/spine worn/frayed with some corner bumping, front & rear hinges split & binding open in places but sound. Some foxing mainly to endpapers otherwise a clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 33D*
