1981 The Lisle Letters Edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne Complete in 6 Volumes

Description: The Lisle Letters Edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago & London. 1981. Complete set in 6 volumes. First Editions. Uniform cloth binding measuring 9.5 x 7”, 8vos. In good condition. Cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Heads and tails of spines bumped. White title labels on front boards lightly scuffed/soiled, but all remain legible and intact. Light soiling to top edges of text-block. Gilt lettering bright and clean. Text-blocks clean. Bindings remain intact. Please see photos. The Lisle Papers are the correspondence received in Calais between 1533 and 1540 by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (c.1480-1542), Lord Deputy of Calais, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV and an uncle of King Henry VIII, and by his wife, Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (born Honor Grenville and formerly the wife of Sir John Bassett (d.1529) of Umberleigh in Devon), from several servants, courtiers, royal officials, friends, children and other relatives. They are an important source of information on domestic life in the Tudor age and of life at the court of Henry VIII. Although long available as transcriptions in the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, they were first published as an annotated collection in 1981 as a six-volume edition, titled The Lisle Letters, and an abridged selection in one volume was published in 1983, both edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne. Complete set. First Editions. FORN-SHELF-0758-BB-2409-HK2082

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Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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