FROM COUNTER-REFORMATION GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

TREVOR-ROPER Hugh

ISBN 10: 0436425130 / ISBN 13: 9780436425134

Published by Secker & Warburg, 1992. 0436425130, 1992

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1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xvi + 331 (no inscriptions).

Seller Inventory # 195876

Bibliographic Details

• Title: FROM COUNTER-REFORMATION GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg, 1992. 0436425130
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436425130
• ISBN 13: 9780436425134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern History

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Synopsis

Very good hardcover. First edition. Unclipped jacket (good condition) with edgewear and faint scores. The hardcover spine foot is bumped. Some light marks on the page block. The pages are sound, all text is clear. CM

From the Back Cover

This collection is the third in a series which gathers the best historical essays of Hugh Trevor-Roper, considered by many the unequalled master of the form. The pieces here range from an account of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci's mission in China in the sixteenth century to a discussion of the Anglo-Scottish Union. They include essays on medicine at the early Stuart Court, on the plunder of artistic treasures in Europe during the wars of the seventeenth century, on the plans of Hugo Grotius to create a new universal church on an Anglican base, on the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and religious toleration thereafter. There are also biographical studies of Archbishop Laud, Matthew Wren, the Earl of Clarendon, and Prince Rupert. As Noel Annan wrote in Our Age, Hugh Trevor-Roper has "perfected the historical essay as the most beguiling form of enlightening readers about the past. He is the most eloquent, sophisticated and assured historian of Our Age, and has never written an inelegant sentence or produced and incoherent argument".