The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh [VII; 7th] (The Folio Society)

256 pp. Color illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece, black-and-white portraits by various artists. The endleaves reproduce in four colours a section of late fifteenth-century tapestry now at Winchester College. Edited, with an introduction, foreword, genealogies of various royal families, an appendix of The Account Book of Henry VII, and a biographical index, by Roger Lockyer. A historical account of England during Henry VII's rule, sometimes called 'the first modern classic of English history,' and an important work in the history of political thought.