1937 OUR SOVEREIGNS Alfred to George VI British KINGS QUEENS Osbert Lancaster VG

Description: OUR SOVEREIGNS from Alfred to George VI 871 — 1937 Written by Osbert Lancaster. Published by John Murray, London. Copyright 1936; this is the second printing, March 1937. There are 56 color portrait plates of sovereigns. “The purpose of the present volume is to present in a compact and accessible form a collection of portraits of all our kings reproduced from contemporary originals. These pictures are of varying merit, but all were painted either during the lifetime or shortly after the death of the sitters, who thus appear to us as they did to their contemporaries.” DESCRIPTION: 200 pages 8 x 5 1/2 inches second printing hardcover CONDITION: This hard-cover book is in very good condition. There is no dust jacket. The yellow cloth hardcover is fairly clean and shows only light wear at the corners and spine ends. The spine is slightly sunned. Although there is some discoloration of the endpapers, the interior is excellent with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper is slightly toned with age. The hinges and binding are very good—no loose or missing pages or illustration plates. From the Introduction: From Alfred to George VI the English throne has been occupied by no less than fifty-four sovereigns. Their lives and deeds have been exhaustively investigated and frequently chronicled, and some knowledge of their careers is the property of every schoolboy. Their likenesses, however, are, save in a few outstanding cases, less generally familiar, and those monarchs who were not so fortunate as Henry VIII and Charles I in possessing either a distinctive appearance or a genius as court-painter, have frequently come featureless down the ages, or still worse, wearing masks not of their own devising. Thus the unfortunate little Edward V is known to many of us only through the romantic medium of the talented M. Delaroche’s highly imaginative art, and to the older generation of playgoers the features of Henry V are for ever those of the late Mr. Lewis Waller. With the coming of the cinema this process of substitution has notably increased, and even those kings whose appearance is familiar to all are now in danger of undergoing a slight but subtle metamorphosis; thus Henry VIII (already, one gathers, known to the youth of central Europe solely as “Ein Beruhmter Filmkonig’) has developed a strong likeness to characters so divers as Rembrandt and Captain Bligh, and his dominating personality seems likely to merge as completely into that of his skillful impersonater as has L’Aiglon’s into the late Sara Bernhardt’s. BECAUSE MEDIA RATE SHIPPING IS FREE ON THE BOOKS I SELL, COMBINE THIS WITH OTHER ITEMS FROM MY EBAY STORE. I AM AN EXPERIENCED EBAY SELLER (23+ YEARS) AND SHIPPER WITH 100% (always!--since 1997!) FEEDBACK RATING. ALL ITEMS ARE CAREFULLY AND SECURELY PACKED TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE DANGER OF CRUSHING AND OR WATER/MOISTURE DAMAGE. ALL BOOKS ARE SHIPPED IN STURDY BOXES WITH TRACKING AND DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED. I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE ALL OF THE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND SIGNATURES ON BOOKS I SELL.

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