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Sharpe, Kevin.
Selling the Tudor Monarchy.
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London;
Date of Publication: 2009
Stock Code: 12630
First Edition. Octavo, pp. xxix, [1], 588. Sixty-six figures within text. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket featuring Lucas de Heere’s “The Family of Henry VIII”. Upper corner of lower board bruised otherwise a clean bright copy, with tidy ownership inscription to ffep. Jacket a little creased to edge. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. A study of the management of image in the service of power as practised by the Tudor Kings and Queens in sixteenth century England, using building, print, art, material culture and speech to present themselves. This is the first sustained analysis on the subject and embraces history of art, literature and culture. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £30.00