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WORSLEY, LUCY: : CAVALIER: A TALE OF CHIVALRY,PASSION,AND GREAT HOUSES

US.N.Y.BLOOMSBURY,2007.

ISBN 9781596913585.

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.Stated First U.S. Edition 2007.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic superimposed contemporary artwork illustrated front panel of dw/dj, with brown and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, generally sharp-cornered - top two corners minimally bumped/creased - publisher's original plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped fluorescent bronze gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a brown+white chequered headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.US,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,v-xixpp+1-332pp [paginated] includes separate b/w vignette illustrated contents+illustrations lists/tables,3 double-page CAVENDISH Family Trees,b/w map,Timeline,10 chapters and an afterword, 16pp modern colour photographs in 1 block, between pp140/1,b/w vignette illustrated chapter headpieces,profuse historical, contemporary 17thC b/w reproduction illustrations,acknowledgements,sources, notes,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. A vivid portrait of a 17thC nobleman,his household,and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War. William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a Cavalier.He was both courageous and cultured.His passions were architecture,horses,and women.And,along with the entire courtly world of King Charles I and his Cavaliers,he was doomed to failure. Cavendish taught Charles's son to ride and was the general of the King's army in the north during the English Civil War. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644,he went into a long continental exile before returning to England in triumph upon the restoration of King Charles II to the throne in 1660. The untold side of his story is about the elaborate household that sustained him and the building of some of the most romantic of England's country houses. Cavendish's houses were designed to protect him from the public gaze.To offer us a rare glimpse of courtly life,Lucy Worsley breaks through the successive barriers of gate-house,hall,stairway,and state apartments through to the bedchambers,closets,garden rooms,and riding houses that were the most intimate spaces. We see behind the scenes: the cleaning of the kitchens,the packing up of the tapestries as the household moved from house to house,and the mechanics of a 17thC building site.Focusing on eight individual days selected across fifty years,'Cavalier' paints a picture of elaborate parties,real estate obsession, gossip,conspiracy,and sexual intrigue.From Ben Jonson and Anthony Van Dyck to long-forgotten servants,'Cavalier' recreates the cacophony,stink,ceremony, and splendour of the stately home and its inhabitants. The chief curator of the Historical Royal Palaces (including Hampton Court and the Tower of London),LUCY WORSLEY is a leading young historian.She has been researching the story of William Cavendish and his household for more than ten years,and is the author of the English Heritage guide to Bolsover Castle,his principal home. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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