The Chapel Royal: Ancient & Modern (FINE COPY OF BRITISH HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION) by Baldwin, David - 1990

London: Duckworth, 1990. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. Profusely illustrated with photographs and line-drawings. A well-researched and authoritative history of the Chapel Royal. It is a body of priests and singers appointed to minister to the spiritual and temporal needs of the sovereign and the Royal Household. As such it is a collection of people, not a building, though it has become identified since the rise of the great Tudor palaces with certain buildings in which it regularly conducts divine service. Drawing on previously unresearched and unpublished sources, it reveals for the first time the true extent of the Chapel Royal's spectactular contribution to state politics and diplomacy in war and peace.With Appendixes, Bibliography and Index. A fine copy, in a fine d/w, of a British first edition, first printing. SCARCE in this condition. HEAVY PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. ORDERS OUTSIDE OF UK MAY INCUR EXTRA COST. No inscriptions, underlining or highlighting.. British First Edition, First Printing Br. Hardback. Fine/Fine.