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\"HenryThe Eighth\", By Francis Hackett. Copyright 1929 by Horace Liveright, Inc. FirstEdition First American Printing. Published 1929 by Horace Liveright, Inc, NewYork. Vintage Illustrated Hardcoverbound with blue cloth-over boards with red and gold family crest on front coverand gold lettering on spine. Text-block head edges have a nice maroon tint. Nodust jacket. 452 pages.Measures: 8 3/4 x 6 x 1 1/2 inches.
In casethe state of Europe at the opening of the sixteenth century is not fresh orclear in the reader’s mind, I have provided a short summary, a kind ofhistorical backdrop, which will be found at the beginning of the book. A wordas to conversations. I have invented nodialogue. Thanks to the astonishingly full diplomatic correspondence, I could stickto the record and yet quote direct speech. Most of the records are indicated tothe psycho-historian in the twenty-one volumes of “The Letters and Papers of theReign of Henry VIII,” prepared under the direction of the Master of the Rolls —a stupendous wealth of material filling over twenty thousand packed pages. Thisis by no means the only material easily accessible. A bibliography prepared forme in Paris runs to 67 type-written pages. The sources are so rich as to be almostinexhaustible — there are few episodes that do not invite further research. Tobe then-minded, to use imagination and intuition, to suggest life — this is thetask of the psycho-historian. But no vividness excuses infidelity to the facts,and l have sought to base this history entirely on the material provided by theunselfish labor of a host of scholars, who, in matters of fact, must have thelast word. (From the Foreword)-F.H.
Thisis a nice, Vintage, Illustrated, First Edition, First American Printing of oneof the most famous British Kings in history. This would be a nice addition orgift for any British royal History or Francis Hackett fan or collector. Pleaseview all photos as they are part of the condition description, and carefullyread the description. I try to show and describe the highlights and flaws tothe best of my ability. I believe these to be important to both the collectorand the casual reader alike.
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