Earls of paradise / Adam Nicolson
2008, Second Edition. London : HarperPress. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #336136
ISBN: 9780007240524
Physical description; xii, 298 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), geneal. table, maps, plans ; 25 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 279-287. Contents; The long road to civil war, (1540-1650) -- The making of the Pembrokes, (1527-1546) -- A countrey of lands and mannours : the world the Pembrokes acquired -- The exercise of noble authority: the first Earl as power broker, (1549-1570) -- I'll be a park and thou shalt be my deer : the making of the Pembroke Arcadia, (1570-1586) -- Little earths kind of paradise : Mary Pembroke's Court at Wilton, (1586-1601) -- Two incomparable brethren : the careers of William, Earl of Pembroke, and Philip, Earl of Montgomery, (1601-1630) -- So mutable are worldly things: ancient communities and the threat of modernity -- Elizian fields and ayery paradises : the perfecting of Wilton, (1630-1640) -- A sad and miserable condition we are fallen into: the catastrophe of civil war, (1640-1650) -- Hear this, o ye that swallow up the needy : the destruction of downland society, (1650-1830). Subjects; Pembroke family. Pembroke Earls of. Herbert family. Pembroke, William Herbert Earl of, (dd. 1580-1630). Nobility Great Britain ; Biography. Country life England Wiltshire. Nobility England Wiltshire ; Biography. Great Britain History Charles I, (1625-1649). Great Britain History Tudors, (1485-1603). Great Britain History James I, (1603-1625). Great Britain History Stuarts, (1603-1714). Wilton House (Wiltshire). Great Britain - History - 16th/17th/18th/19th centuries - (1520-1830). Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated.
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