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LOADES, DAVID: : The Seymours of Wolf Hall - A Tudor Family History

UK.STROUD,GLOUCESTERSHIRE.AMBERLEY PUBLISHING,2015.

ISBN 9781445634951.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt colour pictorial illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with brown-lettered part-title,black-lettered sub-title and capitalised, black-lettered  and brown+black lettered review to lower edge,by HILARY MANTEL; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered part-title only and similalrly coloured+lettered author name as the front's,and publisher's brown thumbnail illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with six thumbnail contemporary,colour portraits of Jane,Edward,John and Thomas Seymour,Henry VIII and Edward VI.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges though lightly toned,are bright,crisp and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread other than my own collation. Publishisher's bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-282pp [paginated] includes author's Preface,an Introduction,10 chapters and an Epilogue,8pp historical contemporary b/w+colour illustration reproductions in 1 block between pp145/46, Notes,a Bibliography,List of illustrations; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,Contents list/table,and to the rear,3pp publisher's b/w illustrated advert for other titles. Author's last work/title before his death in the following year. David Michael Loades FSA (19th January,1934 – 21st April, 2016) was a British historian specialising in the Tudor era.He was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wales, where he taught from 1980 until 1996,and was Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield from 1996 until 2008.In the 1960s and 1970s he taught at the universities of St. Andrews and Durham.From 1993 until 2004 he acted as Literary Director of the John Foxe Project at the British Academy; he subsequently became an Honorary Member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford.Loades studied at the University of Cambridge.He wrote many books on the Tudor period,including biographies.He was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (1992–93). Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. Although the Seymours arrived with the Normans, it is with Jane, Henry VIII’s third queen, and her brothers – Edward, Duke of Somerset, and Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley – that they became prominent.Jane bore Henry his longed-for son, Edward VI, and both her brothers achieved prominence through her. Her brother Edward was central to Henry’s activities in Scotland and became Lord Protector for the young king, his nephew, a hugely powerful position. Thomas married Henry’s sixth wife, Catherine Parr, and after her death in 1548 aimed to marry Princess Elizabeth (the future Elizabeth I), with whom he had flirted when she was in Catherine’s care, and for this he was executed for high treason. Edward fell foul of his fellow councillors and was also executed. Edward’s son was restored to the title of Lord Hertford by Elizabeth I, but was sent to the Tower when it emerged that he had secretly married Jane Grey’s sister, Catherine, who was Elizabeth’s protestant heir. Both her marriage and pregnancy were an affront to the queen.                                  This is the epic rise and fall of the family at the heart of the Tudor court and of Henry VIII’s own heart; he described Jane as ‘my first true wife’ and left express orders to be buried next to her tomb at Windsor Castle. The family seat of Wolfhall or ‘Wolf Hall’ in Wiltshire is long gone, but it lives on as an icon of the Tudor age. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.  ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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