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Paul Rival; trans. Una Lady Troubridge.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
Published London: Book Club Associates, 1972 reprint (reprints the 1971 Heinemann edn.; original edn. was 1937).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitchbound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, London, Fakenham & Reading.
Size: 134x202x29mm.
Page count: text 344pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit grubby, some wear on its edges and corners, a small puncture on its front panel, which also shows as a scrape on the front board; in other respects the book itself looks in reasonable order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £2.50
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 513g.

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Contents: Infanta Catherine of Aragon; Puny prince & king with a cough; The crown, the flute & the conjugal bed; Pleasures of war; A too impressive neighbour; 2 flowers on 1 stem; Feminine cunning vs. priestly wiles; Wolsey's last struggles; Glamour of the crown; Fumes of blood; The sword; Simples pleasures of domesticity; From shadows to reality; The Howard rose-tree blooms again; Rose without a thorn; Twilight.

Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

[No apparatus].

See also | Henry VIII | Anne Boleyn | Queens & empresses | Marriage |
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