The Stuarts by Sir Charles Petrie, Bt - 1958

Houghton Mifflin. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1937 1st US. HC 8vo red cloth, gilt. VG-/ndj with spine lightening, foxing, else a solid copy, with many full-page b/w plates, index; 359 pages. bx126

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. xii, [2], 358, [2] pages. Cover has wear, soiling, and material stuck to the front cover. Small black and white portrait illustrations of the six Stuart Sovereigns of England on the frontispiece. Twenty full page portraits in the text. The book contains an appendix on the death of James II and William III, as well as a genealogical table of the Stuart Kings of England, and an index. Petrie was known for his interest in royalism and Jacobitism. Several of Petrie's books deal with Charles I's government, towards which he was broadly sympathetic. He published biographies of Lord Bolingbroke, of the early-20th-century British cabinet minister Walter Long, and of three Spanish kings: Philip II, Charles III, and Alfonso XIII. Another biography of his dealt with a fourth notable Spaniard: Philip II's half-brother Don John of Austria. He was a member of the Jacobite Royal Stuart Society This book focuses on how the… Read More