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Ian B. Cowan, ed.
The Enigma of Mary Stuart.
Published London: Sphere, 1972 (hardback was Gollancz, 1971). [ISBN 0722124430].
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney, Aylesbury.
Size: 129x196x14mm.
Page count: 222pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks rather battered; covers scuffed and creased, edges and corners frayed; pages yellowed with age; the spine is frayed but not heavily creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £2.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 193g.

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Contents: assembles a variety of short extracts from various sources, historical & literary, under the following headings: The legend; Queen of France; Return to Scotland; Conciliation & compromise; Huntly & Corrichie; A zealous Catholic?; English succession; Marriage propositions; Marriage to Darnley; Marriage to Bothwell; Abdication & exile; England — trial & imprisonment; The Casket Letters; Years of captivity; Plots against Elizabeth; Trial & execution.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 22pp
Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 5pp
Index: no

See also | Mary Queen of Scots |

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