THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR (3 VOLUMES)
Written by C.V. Wedgwood
Published by Folio Society
in 2001
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THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR (3 VOLUMES)
Written by C.V. Wedgwood.
Stock no. 1208975
1st thus.
2001.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Titles are: The Trial of Charles I; The King's Peace 1637-1641; The King's War 1641-1647. Colour plates. Pictorial cloth with black title label and gilt title to spine. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is a little shelf-scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- THE TRIAL OF CHARLES I
- Plan of Westminster
- Author's Introduction
- I Prologue
- II The Grand Delinquent
- November - December 1648
- III Grandees, Presbyterians and Levellers
- 1648
- IV Right and Might Well Met
- 15th December 1648 - 6th January 1649
- V 'The Great Business'
- 6th-20th January 1649
- VI The King on Trial
- 20th-23rd January 1649
- VII The King Condemned
- 24th-27th January 1649
- VIII King Charles the Martyr
- 28th-30th January 1649
- IX Freedom, by God's Mercy Restored...
- February 1649
- X Epilogue: The Regicides
- Bibliographical Note
- Notes
- Index
- THE KING'S PEACE
- Maps
- Introduction
- Author's Introduction
- Acknowledgement
- BOOK ONE
- The Happiest King in Christendom
- June 1637
- I Court and Country
- II Faith and Foreign Politics
- III The King's Peace and the King's Revenue
- BOOK TWO
- Challenge from Scotland
- June 1637 - July 1639
- I The Covenant
- II Ship-money
- III The Glasgow Assembly
- IV The First Scots War
- BOOK THREE
- An Army in Ireland
- August 1639 - November 1641
- I The Return of the Lord Deputy
- II The Short Parliament
- III The Second Scots War
- IV Parliament and the Crown
- V The End of Strafford
- VI The King and John Pym
- VII Scotland and Ireland
- Bibliographical Note
- Notes
- Index
- THE KING'S WAR
- Maps
- Author's Introduction
- BOOK ONE
- From Peace to War
- November 1641 - April 1643
- I London Lost
- II Preparations for War
- III Autumn Campaign
- IV Winter of Discontent
- BOOK TWO
- The First Civil War
- April 1643 - October 1645
- I The Equipoise of Fortune
- II The Coming of the Scots
- III The North and the West
- IV The Reform of the Armies
- V The End of the Cavaliers
- BOOK THREE
- Between War and Peace
- October 1645 - January 1647
- I Presbyterians and Independents
- II The King and the Scots
- Bibliographical Note
- Notes
- Index