The Wars of the Roses: From Richard II to the Fall of Richard III at Bosworth Field -- Seen Through the Eyes of Their Contemporaries Preface by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
first edition
[1988] · New York
by Hallam, Elizabeth; Editor.
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1988]. First American Edition, As Stated. Folio, gold cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 320 pp. Illustrated in full-colour. Near-Fine, with former-owner’s embossed stamp, in a Fine dust jacket. “here is the authentic voice of medieval England, the monks, clerks, and laymen, recounting in vivid and often racy detail the story of Britain from the accession of the capricious dilettante Richard II in 1377 to the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485...More than 100 short essays, lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, provide background information on the people and politics, manners, mores and customs of a formative epoch in English and European histoyr. (Inventory #: 90156sc)