Elizabeth I

A beautiful softcover edition in very good condition. Shelf wear is present around the edges, with the binding remaining tight and square throughout. Pages are clean and unmarked, printed on substantial, opaque stock, with a glossy photographic plate section reproducing period portraits in crisp, true colour. Constable paperback edition, 1989 (first published in hardcover by Constable in 1987). Jasper Ridley, educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, was an award-winning nonfiction author and biographer, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his 1970 biography of Lord Palmerston. His Elizabeth I traces the queen's life and reign as a consummate politician and champion of the Reformation, credited with establishing England as a world power and presiding over a flourishing of art, science, and commerce. Includes a photographic plate section featuring period portraiture, including the Zuccaro-attributed Darnley portrait reproduced as the frontispiece.